Dapper Bandit Kidnaps 2 Children Robs Store
Oklahoma City police sought a stylish robber who abducted Lawrence Dillard's son Michael and his niece Peggy Jones from their home and robbed the supermarket of several hundred dollars. Detectives later found the children unharmed on a downtown street after the man released them and fled.
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Oklahoma City
Lawrence Dillard
Michael
Peggy Jones
Dillar
Dillard
Peggy
Mich
Headless Body Not Legislator in Lake Michigan Find
Police ruled out the missing Illinois legislator Clem Graver as the headless body found on the Lake Michigan shore near Hammond Indiana. The decomposed remains washed ashore Monday and showed the head had been removed. Homicide Lt. John Walsh said the body is not Graver after examination. Graver, a 53 year old Chicago legislator, has been missing since his abduction from his home on July 11, with the deputy coroner noting the body was in the water for about six weeks.
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Hammond
India
Lake Michigan
Clem Graver
Illinois
John Walsh
Chicago
Graver
Peter Stecy
Education Holds Key To Farmers Problems
Secretary of Agriculture Benson said research and education are the key to farm problems including cutting costs improving quality and expanding markets He urged major farm organizations to share views on issues and emphasized viewing farming from laboratory research to farm distribution and business management He called for stronger support of fundamental sciences to improve soils plants and livestock
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Washington
Benson
Butler County Ohio annexation petition hearings set for Oct 20
A public notice states that on August 28 1953 a majority of freeholders along parts of Lemon Township Butler County filed a petition to annex territory adjacent to Middletown to the city. The Butler County Board of Commissioners fixes October 20 1953 at 11 am for the hearing in Hamilton Ohio.
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Board of Commissioners
Butler County
State of
Ohio
Butler
Middletown
Lemon Township
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway
Corporation
City of
Lefferson Road
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Detroit Railroad Company
Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Railroad Co
Oxford State Road
Oneida
Alon
Ottawa Street
Oneka Avenue
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati and
St. Louis
County of
Board of Commissioners of
Hamilton
West Germany resumes liner service with Italia and Gripsholm
The West German Federal Transport Ministry announced plans to resume transatlantic passenger service for the first time since 1939. Negotiations by German shipping firms to operate the 16777 ton Italia and 19105 ton Gripsholm are nearing completion for service from Hamburg and Bremerhaven to North America. The Gripsholm is owned by Swedish American Lines. the Italia is Panamanian registered and owned by Home Lines Inc.
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BOM
Germany
West Germany
Federal Transport Ministry
Italia
Gripsholm
Hamburg
Bremerhaven
North America
Home Lines, Inc
Panama
Genoa
Italy
Hamburg America Line
North German
Lloyd
California Seems to Draw Many Aging Americans
Louisiana State University sociologist Dr. H. L. Hitt reported a net migration of aging Americans toward California. Of 297,000 who left their home states in the last decade, about 130,000 settled in California, with Florida and Texas next, largely from the Great Plains, Midwest, and Northeast.
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San Francisco
California
Louisiana
H. L. Hitt
Louisiana State University
Hitt
Gerontological Society
Florida
Texas
Great Plains
Midwest
Northeast
Dog Guards Body Of His Mistress
Neighbors found Mrs. Mildred J. Chappell 55 dead at her Jerseyville farm home after four days without a check in. A spaniel kept guard as a radio played in the background and did not eat since the vigil began, autopsy citing heart ailment as the cause.
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Jerseyville
Ill
Mildred J. Chappell
Here
Typhoid Shots Ordered for Old Havana Residents
The Health Department ordered typhoid inoculations for all residents of Old Havana after 85 people in the quarter fell ill. The action targets the center of the city's business and financial life.
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Havana
Cuba
Health Department
FBI Director Warns of Alarming Rise in Government Frauds
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported 1620 attempted frauds against the government in the year ending June 30 with 202 convictions and over 437 years in sentences. He cited cases including a loan officer and savings and loan officials defrauding veterans and a government employee alongside private citizens swindling Indians out of timber land.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Not Much Hope For Longer Life
Dr Edward L Bortz, former AMA president, told the Gerontological Society convention in San Francisco that extending human life much beyond existing limits is unlikely. He argued the stubborn nature of humanity resists self-betterment despite possible medical advances.
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San Francisco
Edward L. Bortz
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Gerontological Society
Kilgallen Stork Club Host John Sherman Billingsley Identity
The passage discusses visits to the Stork Club in Washington D C and questions about the narrator's identity. It asserts the speaker is John Sherman Billingsley born March 10, 1900 and mentions Pleasure Ridge Park Kentucky as a location reference.
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Stork Club
Washington, D. C
Sherman Billingsley
Pleasure Ridge Park
John Sherman Billingsley
Man Seeks Payment for Chipmunk Crossing Incident
Yoshiro Iwasa of Los Angeles filed a claim against the city seeking 357.76 dollars he says he spent after stopping his car to avoid a chipmunk crossing the street. He says a fire department pickup rear ended him, adding to the cost.
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Los Angeles
Yoshiro Iwasa
Iwasa
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