Murder Mystery From 1915 Yields New Disclosures
Visalia California authorities reopen a 25 year old murder case seeking the body of Lucinda Jane West and clarity on whether her husband Jacob Clinton West murdered her or hired an assassin. The case intertwines bigamy deception and a dying confession implicating a $2500 payoff to bury the truth.
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Jacob Clinton West
Tulare County
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Laecow
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Mamie Higgins
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San Francisco
World’s Champion Moocher claims feathered fame
Arthur Swift, 22, a self proclaimed mooch and hitch hiker, says he has extorted more than 22000 in favors from planes trains and ships and even met Henry Ford Bernard Shaw and Amelia Earhart. He plans to publish Everything for Nothing about his exploits and seeks a moneyed wife. He claims a pedigree from Jonathan Swift and has hitch hiked across the United States and abroad.
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Bernard Shaw
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Amelia Earhart
Newark
N. J
Indianapolis
Shaw
Park Bench
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Chiseler
The Old Iron Hitching Post
A nostalgic poem recalls a weathered iron hitching post in Samantha's yard, standing through time alongside a vanished picket fence. The speaker imagines flying horses and recalls a late night sight of a suitor tying his horse, while playful lines mix hockey, swimming, and rule breaking with a rural memory.
Fragmented reading evokes small town life and oddities
A Wisconsin boy is caught taking night clothes from a neighbor’s line, a pajama theft noted in a casual incident. The piece also recalls lines about hitching posts and older days with a reflective tone on progress and memory.
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Indiana factory employment rises for fourth straight month
Indiana State Employment Service reports November data from 2002 plants showing manufacturing employment up 1.1 percent from October and payrolls down 0.6 percent. Durable goods firms led gains with six of seven groups increasing. non durable woods saw a 1.5 percent fall in employment and 4.5 percent drop in payrolls.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Indiana State Employment Service
Livestock Report from Indianapolis Markets
Hogs 6 000 Hollowers 87 steady market with lights 7 to 7.75 medium 7.80 to 7.05 heavy 7.45 to 7.50 sows mostly 7.22 to 7.65 cattle 1 200 calves 600 very slow on killings classes steer and heifer bids lower bulk heifers 7 to 4 09 wealers steady top 11 50 sheep 2 000 lambs steady bulk good and choice 4 25 wholesale market notes trimmed by some delay between Visalia and Los Angeles and a river body identity remains unknown with a second theory under consideration.
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Indianapolis
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