Find Another Ransom Bill Find Another Ransom Bill
A new $20 bill from the Greenlease ransom was found in Norris City Illinois by Charles E Weirauch whose wife matched serial numbers with published lists The discovery brings to 33 of the $308720 still missing from the $600000 ransom money found so far mostly at Chicago Fed The Norris City area hosted summer carnivals fueling a carnival worker theory about how the money circulated Norris City lies about 125 miles southeast of St Louis
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ST. Louis i
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Norris City
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Charles E. Weirauch
Weirauch
St. Louis
Rice Family Held 35th Annual Reunion in Forest Park
The 35th Rice family reunion was held Sunday in Forest Park with a basket dinner at noon. Officers were elected for the coming year.
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Rice Family
Forest Park
Slaughter's Wife Files Separate Maintenance Suit
Ruth D. Slaughter wife of Enos Slaughter of the Kansas City Athletics has filed a separate maintenance suit in Illinois after a notice of intent to seek a divorce. The petition accuses Slaughter of following a morose hostile course. A 60 day cooling off period is required before divorce suits. They wed December 31 1951, a month after his divorce from his third wife.
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Belleville
Ill
Enos Slaughter
Kansas City Athletics
Ruth D. Slaughter
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Yankees
Illinois
Slaughter
Plumbers Propose Direct Smog Relief Plan
Los Angeles plumbers union urged smog control officials and advocates to gather, climb to the highest mountain, face the wall of smog, and talk loudly together to create a wind that would dissipate the haze swiftly.
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Los Angeles
Associated Plumbing Contractors of
Lonce
Four youths killed in Mendocino County plane crash
Bodies of Beverly Case 22 Berkeley Charles Ise 28 Pittsburg Carole Hore 22 San Rafael and Paul M Johns 21 San Francisco were removed from a brush area on the Mendocino Lake County line and taken to a Ukiah mortuary after the Sunday crash.
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Lakeport
Calif
Mendocino-Lake County
Ukiah
Beverly Case
Berkeley
Charles Ise
Pittsburg
Carole Hore
San Rafael
Paul M. Johns
San Francisco
Subscriptions listed for The Herald readers across towns
A long list of new subscriptions and renewals for The Herald appears from Ottawa Princeton Rantoul Williamsburg Richmond Lane Greeley Paola Baldwin Garnett Overbrook Melvern Osawatomie and other communities. The note ends with a poll indicating President Eisenhower is likely to run for a second term and win.
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The
Herald
Ottawa
John Woodsum
C. D. Wrightsman
C. A. Ellison
Ernest Lawrance
F. C. Sanford
Thomas O'Dea
Fredrick Wood
Bryan Stewart
Donna ‘Stantorf
J. O. Taylor
P. C. Wilson
J. W. Schoonover
Thomas Johnson
Guy Carpenter
Gerald Hamilton
Lee Martin
Don Jansen
Wellsville
Albert Moldenhauer
Shirley Coffin
L. B. Schendel
Anna Brecheisen
Clifford Good
T. L. Bailey
Ralph Sluder
James Phares
Rantoul
Larry Spratt
Marion Vail
Carl Bloomer
Williamsburg
E. E. Neal
Victor Basel
Richmond
Albert Dunbar
James Morford
D. G. Donaldson
SKE
Bretton Woods
N.H. W
Eisenhower
Gasoline Price War Spreads Across Colorado Cities
A full scale gasoline price war rages in Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with Standard Oil the last major oil firm to join. About 1000 service stations are involved and talks suggest spread along the east side of the Rockies. Prices vary with independents offering regular at 23.9 cents a gallon and larger firms at 25.5 cents. Independent premium gasoline goes for 26.9 while large firms charge 28.5.
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Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Standard Oil
Rockes
James A. Coffman
Petroleum Retailers Assn. of
Colorado
Skeleton Found Of Missing Man Atwood Iowa
The skeleton of Alton Peterson, 42, who vanished January 22, 1946, was found yesterday less than a mile from his farm home. Coroner K L Knuth said Peterson apparently shot himself with a .22 rifle. The remains and rifle were found in a ravine by his brother Lawrence while mending a fence.
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Studs
Paine
Lela 'Rice Brennecke
Moran
Jack Rice
Kansas City
Kas
Clarence Coffman
Lem Rice
Wichita
Roberta Marie Viscosky
Leavenworth
Earl Bingamen
Garfield
L. A. Rice
Vern Rice
Donald
Clyde Rice
Jess Rice
W. E. Crawford
Pomona
Walter Hanshaw
Overland Park
Q. R. Whitehead
Gridley
W. T. Brennecke
R. E. Wareham
Martha Coffman
Ted Higbie
W. C. Jackson
Lucy Matile
Homer Matile
Westernh
Auto BO Store
S. Main
Cliff Reynolds
Wearwells Jr
Wizard
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
Philip A. DeLaszlo
Postagr
Nuzman Lumber
Penta
Nuzman
al Williams Agency
Masonic Building
Pho
United States
Gillette’s New
Razor
John G. Kaiser
Masonic
Mary Lee
Malcot
Bath Outfit
B.T.U
Cner
Sporting Goods
Hawthorne Bike
Wards
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