Black Legion slays 25 year old Chicago woman
Florence Castle, a 25 year old divorcee, is found beaten to death in a near North Side hotel room. Her six year old son James witnessed the attack as a masked assailant used a brick. Police link the scene to a note in lipstick reading This is the Black Legion.
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France braces for revolts in fidgety Mediterranean colonies
Paris faces rising nationalist unrest across Syria Tunisia and Morocco linked to Pan Arab currents and incidents in Palestine Egypt and the Italian Ethiopian war. Officials fret over potential outbreaks in Algeria and Tunis where Destour activists push for independence while Syrians join Arab and Jewish campaigns in Palestine.
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Archaeologists uncover centuries old lime kiln near Yorktown
Archeologists digging near Yorktown at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay have unearthed a lime kiln dating back several hundred years near the site of the first permanent English settlement. Inside the kiln they found oyster shell lime.
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Chesapeake Bay
Prominent Mexico woman dies from burns at home
Mrs. Fannie Cave Johnson, 75, widow of Col. J T Johnson, a noted Mexico banker, landowner and auctioneer, died after clothing ignited on a gas jet at her residence. Investigators tie a suspect to a telephone hoax while details link to a prior Chicago livestock show context.
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Baldwin Defies Foes Says He'll Quit In My Own Time
London AP reports Prime Minister Baldwin refuses to resign, declaring retirement in his own time amid British criticism after policy missteps on Italy and Ethiopia. Strained by leaks, cabinet reshuffles, and pressure from Hoare Laval policy, Baldwin faces calls to quit as Parliament and public demand answers before the coronation two years away.
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Trade Turns To Dodge Beauty Winner Victory
A local driver reflects that trading a small car for a large Dodge dubbed the Beauty Winner proved one of the best moves of his life, praising performance and value.
Methylene blue saves life in hydrocyanic acid poisoning
In San Francisco, Eugene Kratzer survived a suicide attempt after ingesting two ounces of hydrocyanic acid. Three injections of methylene blue revived him within minutes of arrival at the hospital, with Breathing returning and a pulse soon following. The treatment, used here since 1932, is credited with saving seven poison cases.
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San Francisco
Eugene Kratzer
Kratzer
Smallest Girl in World Injured at Exposition
Miss Inez Del Rio, 17 and 21 inches tall, billed as the smallest girl in the world, fell four feet from a midget theater stage at the Great Lakes Exposition. She and her 19 inch brother danced when she fractured her skull, condition listed as fair at Charity Hospital.
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Inez del Rio
Charity Hospital
Compton Suggests Cosmic Rays Originate Near Earth
Dr. Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago argues that cosmic rays arise not from distant space but from the Earth's atmosphere many miles above the surface, challenging prevailing views of their origin.
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