18 Jan 1929
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1929
Page
1
Milwaukee jurors hear conflicting testimony as the defense disputes the defendant Harsh’s capacity to distinguish right from wrong. Medical experts describe him as a constitutional psychopath with uncontrollable impulses during his hold up of a Willard drug store manager on October 16.
Realty transfers recorded at the district clerk’s office include B J Renaud as trustee for Madison Reagan Coon’s bankrupt estate in Florida, transfer of undivided partial interests to and from F A Terzia and P Mathews, and conveyances to Pomrve Roofing A Sheet Metal Works Inc and others. Several parcels identified by lot numbers, blocks, and subdivision names change hands with prices ranging from $6867 to $12520.40, plus smaller incorporations of fractions of interests in property parcels with legal describes and appurtenances.
The Virginia Hotel Co. Inc held its annual meeting yesterday in the city electing J. E. Daley again as president. Vice presidents are R. H. Moffatt and R. Prestridge, secretary treasurer A. Grevemberg, and Charles Johnson was elected a director.
Misa Rusty Capes glides across the ice at Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey enjoying a fresh breeze as she skims the surface with ease.
Federal county and city police led a landmark raid on Chicago Heights, netting hundreds of thousands from a liquor ring and arresting twenty-five leaders. Officers seized 423 slot machines in Oliver Ellis homes as part of a major bid to dismantle the suburb’s gang-backed vice operations.
Steamers and smaller craft rush to Cumana after an earthquake leveled the city. Nurses and doctors aboard ferried to assist the injured as the governor reported many casualties. Universal cites 25 dead in a population of about 25 000 amid ruined infrastructure.
An old notice touts 666 as a flu remedy and preventive. It recommends taking the substance every three hours until bowel effects appear, then three times daily, claiming it was highly effective in the last flu epidemic.
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