Automobile an Aid to City Crimes Rise in New Jersey Case
A sequence of robberies highlights the car as a tool for crime. In Hackensack a jewelry store was looted by three men in a taxi, a River Edge post office safe was cracked during a storm, and a Beltline area shoe store was robbed in Bleecker Street New York. Police fear the auto enables rapid flight and deadly stakes in urban crime.
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York
Sixth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Ind
River Edge
Hackensack
N. J
Bleecker ’Street
Nagged Husband Gets Law's Sympathy
Judge R M Wright of Fort Dodge presiding in OONE IA voiced a rare opinion in a separate maintenance suit. He described the plaintiff as a bright but troublesome woman who had pressed for divorce and costs, yet found the husband justified in leaving home after threats and coercive behavior. The judge concluded the husband acted to protect himself and did not award maintenance.
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Oone
R. M. Wright
Fort Dodge
Wright
Idle Rich Playground Shapes Newport Summer Social Scene
Newport Rhode Island embodies elite pleasure with millionaire families and grand horse shows. Alfred Van derbilt hosts Oakland farm garden parties that define high society summers, with fashionably dressed guests and a moving retinue against manicured lawns and grand mansions.
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Newport
Alfred Vanderbilt
Oakland Farm
America
Pomeroy to Leave Solitary After 37 Years in Prison
In Harlington Massachusetts Jesse H Pomeroy, once dubbed the boy murderer of Boston, will gain limited freedoms after 37 years in solitary. Governor Foss cites evidence of changed character though a full pardon is not planned. His mother remains his staunch supporter amid a history of brutal crimes against children.
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Harlestown
Mass
Jesse H Pomeroy
Boston
Foss
Pomeroy
Charlestown
Toad Farm Turns Pest Control Into Profit in Washington
Hiram Potts of Puyallup sells toads for insect control, earning as much as many grain farmers. He started with seven toads found in a Seattle-manhole, raised them on his farm, and sells them by the gross for five dollars. Toads eat beetles and other pests, thriving at dawn and dusk and promising Northwest wide interest.
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Seattle
Potts
Washington
Oregon
Northwest
H. Potts
Man battle with lioness ends with mother killed near Estabrook
Timber worker C. C. Garnett fought a lioness and three cubs in the Estabrook mountains. Garnett sustained a broken wrist, a torn shoulder, and a dislocated arm before his assistant Charles R. Smith arrived with a rifle and killed the lioness. The cubs fled into the mountains.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
C. C. Garnett
Charles R. Smith
Estabrook
Garnett
Smith
Man Turns Negro for Love in Spartansburg
C M Love, living as a white man for a romance with a mulatto woman, admitted he was a negro. He was fined 100 dollars or 80 days in the chain gang. He had been in Spartansburg briefly and passed for white, even securing room and board in a white household. The neighboring white family members are outraged.
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Spartansburg
C.M. Love
Chain Gang
Love
Mrs Bain Seeks Divorce in Reno Over Wardrobe Funds
Mrs George Bain of San Diego formerly Florence Grange sues for divorce in Reno claiming her husband spends about 1200 dollars yearly on silk socks while she is allowed less than 150 dollars for her wardrobe.
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Bain
Reno
New York
George Bain
San Diego
Cal
Florence Grange
Nev
US approves experimental aeroplane mail route in Long Island
The U S post office authorized an experimental air mail run between a Brooklyn branch and the Nassau boulevard aerodrome on Long Island during an international aviation meet. A temporary post office handled stamps and mail dispatch, while officials monitor air mail experiments alongside earlier trans Atlantic and British efforts.
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Shington
Hitchcock
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nassau Boulevard
Long Island
Department
Post Office Department
United States
Victoria
Europe
New York City
J. A. D McCurdy
Peace Talks End Long New York Tongs War
Washington reports a eight month lull among Chinese tongs in the United States with no shootings or stabbings. Chiao Chung-tan, adviser to the Chinese legation, promoted Western dress and living. at a New York peace banquet he cut off about 50 queues as a gesture to weaken secret societies.
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Washington
United States
New York
Chiao Chung-tan
Chiao
China
Legation
Uncle Sam Holds Vast Gold Stock and Policy Shifts
The article argues the U S government has about a billion dollars in gold stored and plans to keep goldCoin production limited for twenty years while shifting to certificates against bullion. It cites George Roberts as claiming a thousand million coins and notes mint closures and a $1000000 savings from issuing certificates.
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Samuel
Sam
George Roberts
Uncle Sam
Roberts
New Florida and Utah Dreadnoughts Prepare for Action
The Florida and Utah, the navy's latest dreadnoughts, will soon enter finishing work at New York yard. Each ships displace 21,825 tons with ten 12 inch guns in five turrets and 16 five inch rifles. Armor belts reach 9 to 11 inches and turretsProtected by a full foot of steel. Turbine engines deliver 28 000 horsepower for speeds above 20.75 knots. Captains Knapp and Benson command the vessels aligned with the Atlantic fleet flagships.
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Florida
Utah
New York Navy Yard
Harry 3
Knapp
Henry
Benson
Mament
Delaware
North Dakota
Navy Department
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Playground of
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Windsor Castle
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