Utopia Kansas A Quiet Settlement With Few Reminders
Utopia in Greenwood County once housed two churches two stores and a college now a Santa Fe whistle stop with two houses and one church remaining Ten residents D R Shogren and James Ohmes families recall the town founded in 1887 by Roger Babson The Ohmes family once lived at Greeley and both families still call Utopia home though its era as a bustling community has passed
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Utopia
Greenwood County
D.R. Shoegren
James Ohmes
Midewest Research Institute
Colege
Eureka
Roger Babson
Santa Fe
Ohmes
Greeley
Chicago Bank Robbers Caught In An Already-Used Hideout
Two men wanted for an $83,783 Northlake bank holdup were captured at a Fox Lake lake cottage, used by one as a hideout 11 years ago. Gargano wounded, Daniels and two women arrested. two officers wounded in the earlier bank attack.
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Chicago
LA Porte
Ind
Lake Cottage
Clifton O. Daniels
Wilmington
Henry M. Gargano
Gargano
Fox Lake
Indiana
Mary“F"Geek
Annette Gargano Leonardo
Lemont, Tl
Daniels
Northlake
FBI
Harold A. Berger
South Bend
Francesville
Berger
John J. Nagie Jr
Atthony P. Perri
Ronald D. Raine
Fin Nanmta Af Wonder
Nice Leap From Motel Window By Brockholst
Richard Keith Brockholst, 22, leaped from a motel bathroom window in Garden Grove into waiting FBI agents. He was sought for defaulting on a $4,000 federal bond on a charge of smuggling 25 pounds of marijuana from Mexico. He was arraigned Tuesday before a U.S. commissioner and jailed in lieu of $4,000 bond.
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Garden Grove, Calif
Richard Keith Brockholst
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Brockholst
Mexico
U.S
Seven-Year-Old Causes Train Wreck in Ark
In Norfork Arkansas a 7-year-old boy and another child watched as a switch lock was broken with a rock and the switch thrown derailing a Missouri Pacific freight. Twelve cars derailed and the fireman Archie Copeland of Memphis died after leaping clear. Two crewmen were injured. Prosecutor Robert Dudley noted under 12s are not prosecutable and said Arkansas and federal rules limit action against the boys while laws are reviewed for possible juvenile court steps.
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Norfork
Ark
Arkansas
Missouri Pacific
Crewe
Robert Dudley
Kansas City
Memphis
Archie Copeland
Tenn
Dudley
Palm Springs Bus Crash Injures Four Children
Dora Johnson driving in Palm Springs collided with a St. Theresa's school bus on Tuesday. Four youngsters on the bus were injured slightly, including 10 year old Leroy Johnson.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Dora Johnson
St. Theresa’s Parochial School
Johnson
Leroy
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