Anniversary recalls New Castle's great unsolved crime
Tonight marks 26 years since City Treasurer John Blevins was murdered in the city building. The case, labeled one of the county’s deepest mysteries, remains unsolved as investigators and residents remember a cold night of 1895 and a tangled investigation with missing funds and a single iron fragment clue.
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John Blevins
John Brevins
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Lawrence County's Greatest Unsolved Murder Mystery
A council led investigation produced volumes of testimony and summoned many witnesses in the hunt for Mr. Blevins' killer. Despite years of work no satisfactory clues emerged, leaving the case as Lawrence County's enduring mystery.
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Prison Pianist To Step Forth To $600 A Week Job
Jefferson City Mo Jan 7 Harry M Snodgrass 25 your old St Louis highway robber who through the miracle of radio was reborn as King of the Ivories while behind penitentiary walls will step into a 6000 a week job in ten days when he is released from prison. Snodgrass has signed a years contract with the Chicago Orpheum Company it became known today. He will appear in concerts.
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International News Service
Jefferson City
Harry M. Snodgrass
St. Louis
Snodgrass
Chicago Orpheum Company
Supply bag and shingles factoid from BC mill study
A supply bag with small pockets can be fastened inside a 4 door shelf or drawer. A BC shingles batch produced in one year, placed end to end, would reach over 770000 miles, about thirty times around the earth, enough to provide ragts for over 126000 modern dwellings.
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British Columbia
Students Told Sun Eclipse Viewed From Nearby Cities
Harold C Curtis former student and Northwestern University professor lectured science classes about the total solar eclipse visible Saturday January 24 at 9 o clock. He urged using smoked glass or telescope while noting 6 percent visibility in New Castle and greater views in Buffalo Ithaca and Poughkeepsie with corona seen during totality.
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New Castle High School
Mathematica
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Ithaca
Poughkeepsie
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Mercury
Venus
Shadow bands and sunlit effects during totality observed
Report describes unusual light patterns seen just before totality and on bright surfaces, including wavering shades caused by last sunlight filtering through lunar canyons. Notes the phenomena are not yet understood while citing AFL membership above three million despite postwar losses.
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Charity Bequests Made By Lilley
Walter T Lilley of California Pennsylvania died after a short illness leaving an estate valued at 250000 to 300000 dollars He bequeathed 10000 to the First Methodist Episcopal choruses 5900 to the Presbyterian church and 2000 to the Christian church The bulk of the estate goes to his mother Lula V Lilley of Bluefield West Virginia Lilley was a large stockholder in Lilley Coal and Coke Company West Brownsville Grays Harbor Wash known for lumber shipments in 1924 that set world records for water cargoes
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Young Blevins
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Walter T. Lilley
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Christian Church
Lula V. Lilley
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Lilley
Lilley Coal 4 Coke Company
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