Underworld Tales From New York Five Boroughs And Blades
A narrator recalls visions of New York’s dark underworld from West and East Side joints to Broadway Tenderloin. He describes gang power, gun molls, and a fatal clash over a Lady of the Night in an apartment in the Roaring Forties, ending with a razor threat and a feigned joke as law closes in.
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Great White Way
Urbana juror Johnson reflects on grand jury service
Giles L. Johnson of Urbana district, the sole colored member of the current grand jury, thanked Judge Worthington as the panel was discharged. He said the experience was honorable though he faced ill treatment, learned much, and valued the time served among his peers.
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Giles L. Johnson
Urbana
Judge Worthington
Johnson
Hank
Jomson
Indictments Not Returned for Ganster and Mann
Grand Jury failed to include Ganster and Louis Mann in the case charging obtaining 50000 dollars from Harry Grave by false pretenses. Both men were arrested in Baltimore and brought to the city, held in 10000 dollars bail after a preliminary hearing before Justice Grahame Johnson. The case was postponed for grand jury action. Grove was summoned as a witness.
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Graud
Walter Gausiler
Louis Mann
Outerbridge Horsey Distiterry Company
Baltimore
Harry A
Ingonat Albaugh
Drustion J. Grahame Johnson
Grove
Gnats Smother Dogs In Alaska Regions
Anchorage Feb 18 Gnats overwhelmed dogs in Alaska during a hot season in the Iditarod and Flat districts. Herbert Riley, operating a Yukon river dog transport system, reports many dogs died, some fought the insects, others gave up quickly. Protective measures included dark sheds, gloves, silk cloths, and constant insect powder burning.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Iditarod
Herbert Riley
Yukon River
Bandits Fail to Process Payroll Hold Up in Allentown
Two masked gunmen entered Roney & Berger shoe factory office in Allentown pa with revolvers but were outnumbered by about 20 employees waiting for payroll. The robbers fled in a waiting car toward Reading after the confrontation and a stolen machine part noted in the escape.
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Allentown
Roney & Berger
Reading
City Opera House to stage Worry and Love Letters lineup
The City Opera House presents Elarald Lloyd in Who Worry this afternoon and evening. Shirley Mason appears in Love Letter on Wednesday, followed by Gloria Swanson as Za Za on Thursday and Friday. John Gilbert also slated for appearances.
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City Opera House
Elarald Lloyd
Shirley Mason
The Haunted Valley Leads Saturday Premiere at Empire
In Just Off Broadway the first episode of The Haunted Valley stars Ruth Roland and will be presented at The Empire. Tuesday features The Sting of the Scorpion as the Empire Theatre program. The Lone Wager screens Friday and Saturday, with Herbert Rawlinson appearing in The Jack O Club.
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the Empire
Empire ‘Theatre
Herbert Rawlinson
The
Jack O'Club
Playhouse Tonight Offers Waryland Divorce and Pathe Review
The program at the local playhouse tonight includes Waryland, Divorce and a Pathe Review screening. A quirky superstition about looking at a growing plant at dawn is noted in local lore, with no one admitting to seeing it in The News.
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Waryland
Pathe Review
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