Flashes of Life highlights odd local bits
Justice of the Peace Hart cashed a $60 check after a marriage and later said he wished he had taken the tip. In Winona Lake a 430-pound lion named Jerry the Second caused a brief scare before being returned to his cage. In Emporia, Kansas, the Minnie-Hot-Cha patrol was officially adopted by the Minnehaha Girl Scout group. Milwaukee taxed Joseph Bornstein’s liquor license renewal after a conviction for selling liquor to two minors.
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The
Associated Press
Charles
Justice of ‘the Peace
George R. Hart
Hart
Emporia. Kas
Milwaukee
Wis
Joseph Bornstein
Bornstein
Murder in Quanomet Echoes Through Octagon House
Cape Cod detective Asey Mayo investigates Marina Lorne’s murder linked to a post office mural. Suspects include Pam Frye and Farnsworths’ circle. Roddy Strutt’s plane crash and city tensions surface amid blackmail and a missing Ambergris fortune. Local figures Nettie Hobbs and Earl Jennings offer clues as townsfolk push for answers.
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Asey Mayo
Cape Cod
Marina Lorne
Pam Frye
Pam
Tim Carr
Frye
Octagon House
Asey
Hanson
Lornes
Jerry
Syl
Peckett Hospital
Father
Quanomet
Earl Jennings
Roddy Strutt
Roddy Strutts
Roddy
Carter
Brigham
Jennings
Ajay
Marina
Lorne
Aaron Frye
Nettie
Ritterly
Copsright
Pheete Atseed Tesler
Idaho judges face tangle over trio entering as unit
In Pocatello three blonde 16 year old triplets Elsie Ethel and Edna Sellos entered a forthcoming Miss Idaho beauty contest as a unit claiming they wear rabbit fur moustaches to conceal their identities. Judges fear legal and ethical issues arise from the unusual entry.
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Pocatello, Idaho
Elsie
Ethel
Edna Sellos
Negro taxi driver begins repaying city relief debt
Eugene W. Casey a 22 year old Negro taxi driver in New York sent the city treasurer a five dollar money order as the first installment on a $70,700 debt he says he owes the city for relief money given when he was ill. He supports a wife and a 14 year old son and expects to pay in small sums, noting his cab earns $25 to $30 a week.
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New York
Eugene W. Casey
Casey
Jewish youth executed under Holy Land emergency rules
In Acre, 19 year old Benjamin Joseph was executed after being convicted by a two man military tribunal for ambushing an Arab bus. Jews failed in vain attempts to save him from the gallows. The item notes the region’s ongoing political context including women’s suffrage after lengthy agitation.
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Holy Land
Jerusalem
Acre
Benjamin Joseph
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