Escaped burglar, insurance agent slain in shootout, and other early 20th century notes
Reports include Western Frank Norton fleeing Los Angeles jail via greased pipe from a laundry to a skylight, and E Siefken killed aiding his son during an Omaha hold up. Also noted are a fatal ranch roundup in Oregon, Japanese Californians entering film production, and legal fights over California alien land law. Additional items cover a Salt Lake City poisoning case, Colorado River Commission plans, and Lewis and Clark highway funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Norton
Los Angeles
Charities E Siefken
Ea Life Insurance Company
Robert
Omaha
Waves and Crises Dominate World News Digest
A flotilla losses include a liner Egypt sunk near Brest with heavy loss of specie. Poland enacts two week paid vacation for industrial workers. German battleship Hanover collides with torpedo boat 8 18. ten sailors die. Guatemala declares martial law amid a major revolution. Paris 1924 Olympic events set nine day period. Gypsy musicians clash with Negro jazz bands in Hungary. British ship Egypt sunk off Finisterre, 98 dead. Chinese northern consolidation seen near Mukden. American Memorial Hospital for Children dedicated at Rheims with $1.2 million fund. Snow work in Yellowstone. Wonderland highways to open June 20. Ouija board linked to suicides per Gen Booth. Stuart painting of Washington found at Washington and Lee University. Ku Klux Klan restructures California leadership with Coburn named king kleagle.
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Hanover
Sassaliz
Tapadula
Chiapas
Guatemala
Orellana
Paris
Hungary
Finistere
Egypt
Peninsular & Orient Line
Reine
Peking
Chang Teo-Lin
China
Great Wall
Chang
Mukden
Chang Txi-Lin
Long Trip Ahead in A Comic Exchange
Dialogue snippets reveal Mrs Gadder joins a new cult and faces six months to pass outer portals. The joke shifts to timing and the high priest’s firm stance, with a punchline about hearing only the tail end of the joke.
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Fred A. Knox
Grant
Pasa
Ore
Knox
California
Pacific Film Exchange, Inc
San Francisco
Frank C. Jordan
Sacramento
United States
Japan
W. W. Morrow
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
M. T. Dooling
W. H. Sawtelle
United States District Court
Frank P. Kelsey
New Harmony
Utah
St. George
Francis Prince
Filia J. Picket
Salt Lake City
Colorado River Commission
Herbert Hoover
Santa Fé
N. M
Phoenix
W. S. Norviel
Arizona
Colorado
Colorado Basin
Norviel
Washington
T. W. Norcross
United States Forest Service
Washington Department
Lewiston
Idaho
Miasoula
Mont
India
Brest
American Memorial Hospital For Children
Rheims
Myron T. Herrick
Yellowstone National Park
Park
Wonderland
Hallington Booth
New York
The
Volunteers of America
Arthur Dawson
United States Military Academy
Washington and Lee University
Lexington
George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Ku Klux Klan
Kleagie
William 8. Coburn
King Kleagie
Atlanta
E. Y. Clarke
Imperial Kinliff
the _ order
Goodyear
Kealer’s
Ay Wena
He Putnam
Dyas
Excello Ees
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