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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
2
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Nineteen year old Winston Phillips and forty year old Mrs Phillips married in Shelbyville Kentucky after eloping from Louisville. They claimed to wed for love despite family opposition and a whirlwind plan that drew public curiosity and threats of whipping. The couple planned to settle in Los Angeles in real estate work as Mrs Phillips joined them.
A chaotic Aurora political item details Wilken A winning the primary with 4142 votes and facing Charles Green in the regular election. The piece appraises Green’s background with military service and notes Wilken A's public views, including plans for civic betterment and a barber shop venture. The fragment ends amid reminders of appearances and admissions.
In Milwaukee a blackmail scheme demanded $50 000 from the Schlesinger family threatening death and arson if payment was not made. A suspect was arrested but the family chose not to prosecute. letters continued to arrive from a supposed informant, with payments demanded at a store on Eighteenth and Violet streets. Detectives tracked the package deliveries and the case referenced deaths of Fertin and A Schlesinger in Albuquerque while traveling to California.
In Northampton Massachusetts a shoemaker named James Lucey Lacey mentored Calvin Coolidge during college days. The pair remained friends as Coolidge rose to statewide prominence and then vice president, with Lacey often offering practical counsel and loyalty shaping Coolidge’s early political path.
Reports indicate Jefferson Medical College graduate Kane, aged year old, removed his own appendix at Kane Hospital in Kane, Pennsylvania, on February 15 using a local anesthetic.
Two weeks after a major procedure on a patient, Dr Kane withholds details, stating the experiment will be worthwhile. Dr DK Vogan praises the method as capable of easing local operations, noting lower pain from gentle handling and claiming any skilled surgeon could perform it on themselves.
A tall farmer from Lincoln county faced instalment payments on a four cent income tax. He testified it was his first time filing and admitted undervaluing his return to the deputy collector of internal revenue, using a one cent money order to cover the payment.
Rapid radio telephone growth brings affordable receiving devices to New York and nearby areas. Amateur wireless operators and commercial stations boost music reception, with cheap apparatus under a few dollars, enabling home concerts and citywide transmissions. Messages describe home setups, rented equipment, and public demonstrations, linking amateur stations to Navy signals and social gatherings.
Frank Rider and Fra zier Tatton organized a playful hunt near the town border. After a half hour start, they released dogs on a large stuffed “bear” that had been set along the river. The chase ended with the bear treed and then retrieved by the dogs in a humorous rural stunt.
Rare Arkansas discovery reports a western hemisphere diamond mine in Pike County in a crater formed by an extinct volcano. Diamonds occur in peridotite pipe amid historic notes from 1906, with early finders led by John Huddleston. Details explain mining differences from South Africa and the arc of peridotite’s behavior.
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