Civilian Military Training Camps expand summer programs
The Military Training Camps association under War Department direction runs summer camps across the United States. Fort Douglas Idaho opens July 2 to 31, 1929 for 180 boys with free transport clothing food medical care and instruction in citizenship and discipline. Transportation clothing food medical and dental care provided by the government. Applications assessed on arrival with first 180 eligible accepted.
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United States
Military Training Camps Association
War Department
Fort Douglas
Wyoming
Nevada
Idaho
A man is like a garment and time tests the fabric
A proverb compares a man to a coat, noting a stylish cut or color may attract admiration but true quality is proven by years of wear, emphasizing that character shows with time rather than instant success.
Germans Seek Exoneration After 1928 Affidavits Claim Innocence
Berlin report on Lehing and Schmidt, once sentenced in Delmenhorst for a 1914 murder during a store robbery, who after seven more years of effort present sworn affidavits from witnesses denying their presence at the crime. They seek post conviction compensation under German law.
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Berlin
Lehing
Schmidt
Delmenhorst
Haschinsky
Criminal Court
Oldenburg
Bremen
Hkewilse
Murderer Teaches In Prison School At Waupun
At Waupun Wisconsin the prison school operates with 20 teachers all convicts including a life term murderer who taught fellow inmates for four years and later became a Bertillon expert. The program runs six months starting October 1 with 140 enrolled across about 20 classes in the prison chapel.
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Waupun
Wis
Lmited
Earl Irish
Irish
University of Wisconsin
Rish
Man Bites a Dog After Arrest in Fort Mills
Fort Mill police chief W D Potts investigated a commotion with howling dogs. A man staggered from the scene and was arrested for drunkenness. He claimed he bit a dog three times due to the barking, a tale supported by a local witness.
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Fort Mills
Charles A. Dana
W. D. Potts
Fort Mill
Potts
Basket saves falling babe in Decatur clothes chute
Phyllis GenericFar land, daughter of Mr and Mrs Greg McFarland, plunged two stories down a home clothes chute in Decatur Indiana. She landed in a basket of clothing and suffered only a slight cut.
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Decatur, Ind
Phyllis GenericFarland
Greg McFarland
Husband Slayer Walks Out of Detroit Prison
Mrs. Maude Cushing Storick serving a life term for murdering her husband, Claude Cushing, escaped from the Detroit House of Correction after swapping prison garb for smuggled clothing. She had been the Denniston family cook and vanished just after nine with guards and police alerted. a $1000 reward was posted.
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Detroit, Mich
Maude Cushing Storick
Claude Cushing
Detroit House of Correction
Edward Denniston
Detroit
Liberty
Minnie Walters
Denniston
Cheese Rolling Rolls Two Thieves to Jail in San Francisco
Two thieves attempted thefts during a cheese shipment at Pier 19. Corpol Reed and fellow officers chased a rolling cheese down San Francisco’s hills guiding it to Titus jail. The captured suspect confessed but withheld the origin of the cheese.
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San Francisco
John Reed
Reed
Titus
Pier 19
Ex Pugilist Acquitted on Murder Charge
Daniel Murnane once known as Dynamite Dan was found not guilty of murdering Vito Brancatella by a Hudson county jury in Jersey City. He testified self defense after saying Brancatella and two others attacked him and he struck to save his life.
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Frank Channing Haddock
New York
Daniel Murnane
Dynamite Dan
Kinkead
Hudson County Court
Jersey City
Vito Brancatella
Murnane
Brancatello
Bayonne
Helpless Man Uses Dog to Deliver Note in Wisconsin
Cornell Wisconsin road patrolman Charles Minick lay ill with rheumatism in his bachelor home. He sent his dog with a note to neighbor Neil. The dog carried the message, and Minick was then taken to town for medical care.
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Cornell, Wis
Charles Minick
Here
Minick
Alredale
Minick R
Sea Gull Returns for Daily Medical Treatment
A sea gull trapped between bridge piles weeks ago had its leg jammed and was freed by a go-tender who treated the injury. The bird now appears daily at Bradley's shack window for ongoing treatment in West Haven, Connecticut.
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West Haven
Conn
Bradley
Trank Death of 23-Year-Old Man in Philadelphia
A 23 year old named Joseph Bechter died in Philadelphia by self act. He used a gas tube hidden in a trunk and turned on the gas, causing his death.
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Self
Trank
Philadelphia
Joseph Bechter
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