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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
3
A story describing how criminals change hair color, wear wigs, shave, and adopt professions to dodge investigators. Police notes reveal disguises range from hair dye and wigs to fake mustaches and altered appearances. Detectives also impersonate guests at events and prefer coarse clothing to blend with crowds.
An elderly Hungarian barber, once a foe of Austria during the 1848-49 upheaval, reportedly inherited a large fortune from Debussy via his sister. Upon the sister’s death, the barber, now the sole surviving relative, gained the wealth, a fact that astonishes and intrigues locals more than the recipient himself.
Washington reports over 800 tons of one-dollar bills to be circulated this year, a sharp rise from 90 tons in 1900, as the federal bureau of efficiency and the treasury push for higher denominations. Habit and necessity drive people to carry more ones, prompting wear on many bills and prompting banks to issue more small change.
John D. McVeigh ends a quarter century as Kalaupapa superintendent and shifts to advisory work for Kalihi leprosy station in Honolulu. Dr. W. J. Goodhue also retires. Dr. Harald Marshall succeeds him. McVeigh cites pot factory, motion pictures, and chaulmoogra oil as key changes. predicts Molokai settlement may close within twenty years if treated early. He aims to push education and public support for leprosy fight. The patients are described as decent, law-abiding, and engaged in work and sport.
News Review of Current Events notes Belgium’s debt deal with the United States, detailing postwar and war debt terms, principal and interest schedules, and the moral obligation cited by officials. It links reactions from France Italy and Britain, plus Coolidge tax plans and notable figures.
Weather and two disabled navy planes force the Mac Millan expedition to abandon air exploration of the polar sea. The party will instead study Norse ruins in Greenland and Labrador and survey Bailin Island, praising navy aviators for perseverance amid harsh conditions. Separate reports note Senussi uprisings in North Africa and French Spanish actions against Abd el Krim, plus Mason elected president of the University of Chicago.
A boiler on the excursion steamer Mackinac exploded in Narragansett bay off Newport Tuesday night killing over twenty people and injuring many more. The vessel, bound for Pawtucket, was wrecked near shore as navy boats and local craft aided survivors. Investigations by federal and state authorities opened as a deteriorated boiler is blamed for the disaster.
OY Chapman Andrews and his expedition are expelled from Mongolia by Urga officials who accuse Chapman of violating his agreement with Mongolian scientific bodies and Andrews of political propaganda against the Bolshevik. The fourteenth Zionist congress opens in Vienna triggering riots by Fascists. Jews meet later as police quell disturbances.
In Stockholm Sweden the Universal Christian conference began with aims to form a united Christian front on postwar world problems. Doctrinal questions are not on the agenda. American delegates urged a total abstinence resolution on alcohol but Europeans rejected it. King Gustave and Queen Victoria hosted a state luncheon with wine while American delegates drank only water.
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