Shadows of the City: Crime Roundup and Habeas Corpus
A city police sweep detains sixty suspects amid a web of crimes from stickups to confidence schemes. The piece notes the struggle to prove guilt, the habeas corpus safeguard, and the shady links among Harp Colton Grame and the MacLaren group with Kitty Hewitt as a possible informer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jin
Central Office
Jack
Jill
John
Runnymede
Kitty Hewitt
Harper Colton
MacLaren Kid
Doviar Durand
Adellen
Kit
Gerve Lavry
Gerse
Grame
Harpion
Bell
Crime saga unfolds at Cleary's in Chicago
Durand and Pellen figure in a deadly night at Cleary's as Lavry confronts Pellen. Kitty Hewitt aids Durand while Furgrister leades a police sweep and Pellen is carted away after a fatal shooting. Bertram Durand shelters Hewitt and faces a moral tangle surrounding Grame, Lavry, and Ed Pellen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddie Pellew
Colton
Durand
MacLaren
Bertram
Pellen
Amy Wing
Mah Jong
Bertram Durand
Kitty Hewitt
Siddie the Immune
Miss Isher
Len
Kate
Yurgrister
Doctor Durand
Sate Keller
Furgrister
Sallie
Himm
Salie
Grame
Eddie
Gramwne
Lertrain
Officer Furgrister
Ed Pellen
Gerve Lavry
Gerge Lavry
Gerve Lavvy
Lavvy
Furgiister
Kate Fisher
Sallie Keller
Pellew
Llewitt
Ile
Kitty Lewitt
Bertraum
Vellen
Lavvvy
Kit
Kitty
Laryy
Larry
Doctor Darang
Surgrister
J'unle
Cathedral Ruins Reported in Greenland Colony Discovery
A Greenland expedition near Cape Farewell at Jullunehand uncovers a nearly hundred foot long cathedral foundations with a bishop’s body in full canonicals found in a chapel. Nearby episcopal palace spans 160 feet front and covers three acres housing cattle horses and more. The find suggests a far larger late medieval Greenland settlement with thousands of farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Farewell
Jullunehand
Greeneland
Old Trondhjem
Norway
Doctor Norland
Copenhagen
Episcopal Palace
Greenland
Eric the Red
Brattaud
Nail Craft Through Time From Prehistoric Huts to Factories
A two and a half pound prehistoric nail found in royal ruins shows nails served homes since ancient times. Early nails were made at home until craft specialists emerged and guilds formed in Augsburg. The first nail making machine appeared in Britain at century's end with early factories following in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourgrister
Bertram
Auditorium
Bertie
Henry Fraley
Logan Grier
Sfurgrister
Furgrister
Vurgrister
Turgrister
Noman
Cleary
Roy
Augsburg
Britain
Birmingham
Bad Peddler Made Good
A humorous tale recounts a Yankee clock peddler who guarantees replacements if a clock fails and keeps one working clock at the end of his route. He cycles clocks between houses, replacing failed units with prior ones, fattening his profits from clocks that never work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richardson Wright
First Teetotal Pledge Declared by Thomas Cook Founders
Executors presented the original teetotal pledge to Sir George Williams, Y M C A founder and Band of Hope president. On September 1, 1932, the pledge marks its centenary, signed by seven advocates of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Cook
George Willias
Y. M
Band of Hope Union
Scott’s First Novel Waverly and the 1745 Uprising
The article recalls Sir Walter Scott’s 1814 novel Waverly as the first in his famous series. It explores political hopes and fears in Great Britain around the 1745 uprising led by Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender, noting the book’s title from Waverley near Wimbledon in Surrey.
Ozark Mountains Defined as Distinct Region by Survey
The Ozark upland area lies mainly in southern Missouri and is separated from the Appalachians by the Mississippi lowlands and from the Rockies by the Great Plains. The U.S. Geological Survey states the Ozarks are not part of any major system but a distinct district.
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Ozark Mountains
Ozarks
Missour
Mississippi Basin
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
United States Geological Survey
Fire Company Prepares New Chevrolet Truck Ready by July Fourth
York Springs Fire Company receives the chassis for a Chevrolet truck to mount an American La France pump. The unit will operate with both water and chemical capabilities and be demonstrated upon completion around July 4. Dispatches pledge cards to employees and report daily to campaign HQs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Coulson
Chevrolet
York Springs Fire Company
la France
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Shadows of the City
Elvwin Balmer
Gene Markey
N. U. Service
George Mislaster
Bunneauville
Hanover
Farmers Grove
Spring Grove
Dicks’ Dam
Getysburg College
W.G. Chapman
Harp
Slarp
Warp
Itarp
Kid
Tarp
Darand
Culton
Lewitt Dame
Underworld
Ed Wpellen
Chicago
Pelten
Indee¢d
Ft U
Bertram Darand
Marshall Darand
Seddie Yellen
Big Black
Walter Singer
North Side Society
Varand
Young MacLaren
Burand
Clgar
Furegrister
Hewltt
Cleahy
Cleahy's
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
Eulalia Smith
Millersville State Normal School
McSherrystown
Clarence Smith
Bernard Jienny
Wahington
D. C
Ruth C. Worley
George Worley
Baltimore
Colonial Hotel
York
A. Bollinger
West Palm Beach
Fla
Florida Kiwanis Clubs
Kiwanis
Memphis
Hanson
Frank Kramer
Gettysburg College
Bedie Pellen
Kitty Tewittt
Lavry
Yellen
Marshal Durand
Belle of Chicago Society
M. P. Moller
Hagerstown
Jesse Juenker
Harrisburg
Harry W. Hofe
Feanover
Berwick
I. X. Kuhn
Hanover General Hospital
Rodin
Rodin Museum
France
Pantheon
Paris
Ong
Cleveland Museum of Art
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
Detroit Institute of Arts
Buenos Aires
Scott
Ozerk Mountains
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