Three Masontown Women Held for Kidnapping Plot
In Masontown Pennsylvania three women, Mrs Richard Toney and her daughters Mrs Alexander Jones and Mrs Samuel Elise, were jailed on conspiracy and kidnapping charges. Authorities in Maryland sought a party of motorists connected to the case. The alleged plan involved Jennie Hannah 15 taken from A Hannah real estate office to an awaiting car. The suspects claimed the men were George Toney Thelma Hansen and the girl's relatives. Detectives pursued across the Maryland line but encountered car trouble and failed to recover the girl.
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Masontown
Maryland
Jennie Hannah
A. Hannah
Jennie
Hannah
Cave Man Outwitted Husky Cop in Courtship Case
Grace Buttacorell, 17, accused Rocco Visconti of luring her to work in a sedan, taking her to a candy store, and forcing marriage with a pistol threat. She demanded a bridesmaid and best man before police intervened. Visconti faces assault and carrying pistol charges in New York.
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Rocco
New York
Rocco Visconti
Upper East Side
Grace Buttacorell
Visconti
Platel
Desert Motors and Liquor Smuggling Suspected at Atlantic City
Eleven cases of Scotch whisky valued at 38000 were abandoned near California avenue and a thoroughfare as two automobiles were left behind and rum smugglers fled by a high powered motor launch. County detectives arrived at the water edges but the suspects escaped. The machines and liquor were confiscated.
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Desert Motors and Liquor
Atlantic City
MN. J
California Avenue
Queen Wilhelmina’s Kindness Captures Hearts in Hague
Continent reports the Dutch queen spoke with a laborer’s child during a drive near The Hague. The girl received gloves, caramels, and gold pieces from the palace, with the queen seeking the child’s preference. The gift plan aimed to protect the girl from family greed.
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Wilhelmina
Petit Parisien
Hague
Woman's World Is Wider and Women's Rights Expanded
Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale notes women now enfranchised and broadly educated earning near equal careers. She cites married property and guardianship acts freeing wives, while home duties rise with household devices giving more leisure. Modern industry reduces home work but raises domestic remittance pressures for many women.
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Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
Vreaperlty
Otachinery
Clerk Buys NYSE Seat for 82000 in Record Pace
Benjamin Jacobsen a telephone clerk for Harris and Fuller within the New York Stock Exchange bought a seat for 82000. He is the thirtieth floor employee to purchase a membership in the past five years at the exchange.
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New York
Benjamin Jacobsen
Harris & Fuller
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Jacobsen
Fall Kills WN Trooper in New Jersey Motorcycle Crash
State Trooper William H. Marshall of Shrewsbury died from injuries after a fall from his speeding motorcycle on a call. He struck the road when his cycle exploded after a burst of flame near Long Branch Hospital.
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WN. J
Atlantic City
N. C
William HY. Marshall
Long Branch
Marshall
Shrewsbury
Lifting Power of Air and Gases
Lifting power of air is 0.168 rounds per 1 000 cubic feet per degree Fahrenheit above ambient. Total lift includes balloon weight. Hydrogen lifts 751 pounds per 1 000 cubic feet. Helium lifts 60.7 pounds per 1 000 cubic feet at the same temperatures.
Fifteen New Crop Diseases Reported in United States
Fifteen new diseases of felana vegetable crops were reported in the United States during 197 Twretva cropa. They affected crops including cum rot radish Swiss chard lettuce pox tato radish Chinese cabbage bewg watermelon sweet potato tomato and tobacco. Most new diseases appeared in restricted areas, likely due to abnormal climate and sitellae conditions.
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United States
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