Oil promo swindle hits investors across Texas and nation
NEA Service reports a vast oil promotion scam costing investors up to 1.25 billion dollars since promoters began in Texas. Government investigators project total capitalization near two billion dollars with hundreds indicted or convicted, as shipments of misleading literature flooded postal districts nationwide.
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Roy J. Gibbons
NEA
Ft. Worth
Tex
NEA Service
Texas
Rufus Wallingfords
Washington
Lst
Changing Names to Boost Oil Stock Sales
A promoter used high sounding renaming to disguise oil stock as royalty rights or mineral deeds and similar terms. Sales rose each time a new brand name was introduced, with the promise of a distinct offer, then retained until it wore out.
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Burmah
Many Odd Wills Reveal Vindictive Provisions Across Nations
A London Answers excerpt notes spiteful bequests after death, from a New Jersey man cutting his wife and daughter to small annuities, to punishments for brides and relatives._examples include a Bath Abby ringers annuity for melancholic bells and a bachelor’s wish to be buried among no women.
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New Jersey
Bristol
Nash
Beau Nash
Bath
Tecard
Lord Kew
John
Oxford
Cambridge
London
Local Mentions in The News are Widely Read
Local mentions in the news attract broad readership as readers follow regional references and influential notices highlighting community events, concerns, and developments across districts.
Economical Little Home Designed by W. W. Purdy
An economical 24 by 34 foot home by W. W. Purdy promises moving-in readiness for about 5000 dollars with plumbing at 650 dollars and a 250 dollar hot air heating plant. The plan favors compact living with two bedrooms a bath a center hall closets and a screened porch while dining space is minimal and a basement houses the heating plant and laundry room.
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W. W. Purdy
United States
Thomases
Poisoning From Dyed Furs and Distant Steam Column
Poisoning from dyed furs traced to metaphenylenediamine in rabbit fur dyes causing skin irritation and severe reactions in some women. Furs may be recolored with proper dyes to avoid reoccurrence. Also notes a steam column observed near Tongatabu from a submarine volcano, with vessels advised to avoid the location.
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England
Sca
Tongatabu
Tonga Islands
South Pacific Ocean
Davey
Union Steamship
Tofua
Apine Observatory
Samoa
United States Hydrographic Office
Man Strangles Mad Deer Near Cumberland
Hagerstown Maryland November 21 A canal boat bargeman named Boyer on the Washington to Cumberland route fought for his life as a deer charged along the towpath. After the animal struck him with its antlers he grappled and strangled the 125 pound deer, suffering injuries to his body and face but not seriously.
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Bargeman
Cumberland
Hagerstown
Sing Werich
Washington
C. M
Boyer
Grosslock
Ancient Holmegaardemose site sparks prehistoric town lore
Denmark dispatches report a 7,000 year old settlement at Holmegaardemose with tools and mammoth bone artifacts. Nearby Predmost Moravia hosts a Quaternary city 75,000 to 100,000 years old, yielding 25,000 flints and 14 Mammoth Age skeletons with ivory beads.
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Holmegaarddsnose
Denmark
Holmegaardemose
Golders Green
Preroy
Moravia
Predmost
Maska
Siberian Arctic
Mislaid Letter Prank Reaches London Tit Bits
A joke from London Tit-Bits recounts a son Pat pleading for ten pounds in a letter to his father in Ireland. The father’s reply claims the original letter never reached him, leaving the son astonished and the gag completed by postal misfortune.
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Malis
London
Pat
Workmen in Salt Works Escape Major Diseases
Report notes that workers attending the pans in salt works are never known to be attacked by smallpox cholera scarlet fever or influenza, suggesting strong immunity or protective conditions in their environment.
Fourteen Nations Support Coolidge Golden Rule Sunday
European relief groups urge governments and publics to observe Golden Rule Sunday by skipping a noonday meal and donating the difference to Greece Armenia and Palestine orphans and widows relief. Notables including King George of Greece and ex Premier Clemenceau back the effort planned for December.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Near East
Dec
Greece
Armenia
Palestine
Europe
King George
Prince Carl
Sweden
Clemenceau
France
Paul Hymans
Alice Masaryk
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Modern Pharmacy
Coolidge
Gude
Warren Bt
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Army
SAM Miller’s
E. Patrick
N. Market St
Frederick
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