Five tubercular convicts escape Hopemont Sanitarium
Five tubercular prisoners, four serving life for first degree murder, escaped from a maximum security section at Hopemont Sanitarium near Terra Alta, W Va. Warden Donivan Adams led a mountain search as officials transfered 15 inmates to Hopemont last March 6 for enhanced medical care and quarantine.
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Terra Alta
W. Va
Hopemont Sanitarium
Donivan Adams
State Penitentiary
Moundsvills
Tve
Hopemont
State Department of Public Institutions
Conley
Theodore T. Dorman
Marshall County
Truman honored by reporters in Independence cake party
In Independence Missouri newsmen covering former President Harry S Truman surprised him at home with cake and ice cream as he appeared, marking a friendly welcome with a light audience gathered to greet him.
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Truman
Independence
Harry S. Truman
Cage Challenge Escalates With Prompt Hand In Cage
A brief exchange notes a participant sticking a hand into a cage and then removing it. The incident is described as not seriously injurious. No further details on persons or location are provided in the readable text.
Rhode Island But Size Contains Tiny Towns and Large Cities
Rhode Island measures only a few miles across yet has a township spanning 49 square miles with a population barely 700 and Central Falls an over one square mile city with more than 23 thousand inhabitants.
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Rhode Island
Central Falls
Towson County Library Donates Books to Jail Inmates
After a grand jury report praised the jail’s condition but criticized reading material standard, Baltimore County library donated seven books to prisoners in Towson Maryland. One title is Anything Can Happen.
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Towson, Md
Baltimore County
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