Credit body puts brake on crooks
New York report from the National Association of Credit Men credits 208 commercial criminals convicted and 419 indictments last year. Since a $1.4 million national credit protection fund was created three years ago, 444 criminals have been convicted and 1,142 indicted, with 536 awaiting trial. The association notes a rise in bankruptcy investigations and says prosecutions deter fraud, saving potentially millions. Convictions were distributed 113 in the East, 82 in the Middle West, and 13 on the Pacific coast.
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New York
United States
National Association of Credit Men
Samuel Aldron, Jr
Association
National Credit Protection Fund
Ardrow
Credit Protection Department
East
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Diamonds of Grasfontein amid South Africa boom
In Grasfontein South Africa primitive corrugated iron offices handle alluvial diamonds worth millions. Brokers arrive with cash, weigh and bargain stones as a mushroom town forms around the rush. Output remains high while demand outpaces supply.
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Lichtenburg
South Africa
Grasfontein
Pretoria
Doctor to Study Cry-Baby Psychology in Institute Campaign
Dr Edwin G Zabriskie announces a study of infant psychology to probe causes of criminality and maladjustment funded by a 2 million dollar campaign. The program will explore chemical balance and the nervous system in babies to predict future adjustment or maladjustment in adulthood.
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Washington
Edwin G. Zabriskie
Medical Board
The
Neurological Institute
Zabriskie
How Cute Sandwich England Garters Red Tassels Joke
A quirky note from Sandwich England jokes about a well dressed male golfer wearing garters with red tassels while quipping about an arbiter and Nugent, ending with a reference to the prince of Wales and a friend.
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Sandwich
England
Elegandiarum
Nugent
Prince of Wales
To Ape Crusoe Plans Visit to Robinson Crusoe Island
Memphis author Richard Halliburton plans a Robinson Crusoe style visit to Crusoe Island wearing goatskins. He intends a solitary life with a man Friday as companion on the adventurous trip.
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Memphis
Tenn
Richard Halliburton
Robinson Crusoe
Nails Hand Forged for English Market
In England some nails are still handmade for furniture and special orders, with Mrs Nellie Brettle of Lye noted as a leading craftsman. Fewer than fifty artisans remain from the era when hand wrought nails were common in the Black Country, now mostly replaced by machines. The hand-wrought nail is praised for horse shoeing.
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Worcester
England
South America
Nellie Brettle
Lye
Neice
Black Country
Elizabeth Marbury denies feminist aim in alcohol male birth claim
Miss Elizabeth Marbury rejects suggestions that feminists push alcohol experiments in Berlin to increase male births. She quips that without males, women would have nothing to laugh at.
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New York
Berlin
Elizabeth Marbury
Fights After-Effect of Scarlet Fever
London report notes tests by Dr. A A Osman at Guy s Hospital to detect early kidney complications in scarlet fever. Preventive alkaline compounds reduced kidney involvement from 5.5 percent in a control group of 316 to 6 percent in a group of 620 patients.
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London
Pew
A. A. Osman
Guy's Hospital
Doctor Osman
Billion Dollar Fur Seal Herd Arrives Under Guard
Dutch Harbor Alaska reports the Pribilof fur seal herd, the world’s largest, migrating from tropical waters to the Bering Sea islands under Coast Guard protection. Aleut drivers herd seals to hauling grounds then to killing sites where three year olds, 40 to 46 inches, are culled for pelts.
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Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Pribilof Islands
Bering Sea
Uncle Sam
Coast Guard
Pribilofs
St. Paul
St. George
Germissiin Pribilof
United States
Alaska Commercial Company
North American Company
Great Britain
Russia
Japan
Sam
Great Invention Brings Back Seat Driving Prevention
An English inventor Ki Veter Jones introduces an automobile feature preventing back seat driving. The device requires the rear passenger to face away from the driver, using a simple seating arrangement to reduce interference.
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New York
Ki Veter Jones
Betty the bulldog unwraps candy in Stockbridge tale
Candy loving dogs may learn from Betty a bulldog owned by James Coakley in Stockbridge Massachusetts who unwraps each piece before eating showing careful chewing.
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Stockbridge
Mass
Betty
James Coakley
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