Teacher builds from modest earnings to million dollar fortune
Miss Ben Jah I Shoesmith, a Hyde Park High School teacher, accumulated about two to three thousand dollars into a 1 037 221 estate through steady stock investments over roughly 25 years. Glendale couple Blanche Albert and Nevin Albert share as chief heirs, identified as Frankie Albert’s parents.
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Chicago
Glendale
Ben. Jah I. Shoesmith
Shoesmith
Hyde Park High School
Carver S. Brown
Brown
Lwill
Blanche Albert
Nevin
Frankie Albert
San Francisco 49Ers
Gas Blast Kills 3 in Pipe Ditch
Three workers died and two were critically burned after a methane gas explosion at a Long Beach water pipe project on Conant Street. Victims include Kenneth Verne Calhoun of El Monte and Leroy E. Ewart of Paramount. Rescue efforts lasted nearly five hours as crews retrieved bodies and treated the injured.
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Long Beach
Allen R. Holmes
el Monte
CNS
Leroy E. Ewart
Verdura Ave
Paramount
James Laidlaw Jr
Dunrobin Ave
Lakewood
Bellflower Boulevard
Canant Street
Kenneth Verne Calhoun
Lambert Street
Long Beach Community Hospital
Houn
Com Macco Construction Corpora
Calhoun
Conant Street
James W. Laidlaw
Laidlaw
Clark Avenue
Los Coyotes
Frank Gallagher
Gallagher
Polio cases rise to 71 in Los Angeles year
Los Angeles health officials report 71 polio cases for the year as two unvaccinated children contract the disease. Dr. George M. Uhl notes the previous year saw 47 cases, highlighting vaccination gaps in the outbreak.
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Los Angeles
CNS
George M. Uhl
Gun burglars raid Santa Monica shop and flee
A trio of burglars ransacked a Santa Monica gun shop taking about 25 firearms before abandoning their vehicle and foot after a police pursuit by Santa Monica and Los Angeles officers.
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Santa Monica
CNS
Los Angeles
Woman Held as Bandit and Kidnapper in Los Angeles
A 24 year old Portland stenographer Mary Lee Lantry was arrested in a Hollywood bar and admitted kidnapping motorist Peter Overmeier and robbing cab driver Cecil Ross. Police found a 32 caliber automatic and a holdup note in her purse. She arrived in Los Angeles seeking a man she has known since age 14.
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Los Angeles
Mary Lee Lantry
Portland
Ore
Hollywood
Miss Lantry
Peter Overmeiere
N. Wilcox Ave
Burbank
Culver City
Cecil G. Ross
S. Elm Ave
Alhambra
Sixth St
Broadway
Overmeier
Private detective Ctash sentencing delayed in race horse drug plot
Superior Judge Leroy Dawson postponed Monday sentencing for private detective Fred Ctash and admitted robber Donald Potter after their convictions for conspiracy to drug a race horse.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Leroy Dawson Ioday
Fred Ctash
Donald Potter
Unclear Burlington ad touts vague doobiddies sale
A Burlington Colorado sales blurb offers a vague list of items described as thingamabobs and doobiddies. The ad promises a very special price on these unspecified goods.
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Burlington
Colo
Burlington Record
Three Hurt in Fiery Cab Crash in Los Angeles
Three people were injured in a crash between a taxi and a car in Los Angeles. The car driver Michael Tolan, 48, of 1019 West 85th Street, was booked on suspicion of felony drunken driving after his southbound vehicle hit the cab at 76th Street causing the cab to overturn and ignite. A cab passenger Nellie Bleach, 47, of Gardena was thrown from the vehicle.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Michael Tolan
1019
West 85Th St
Tolan
Western Ave
Roscoe Barnes
Brooks Ave
Nellie Bleach
West 150Th St
Gardena
One Day Treatment for Despair Prescriptions
A non psychiatrist doctor writes four remarkable prescriptions for one day living in January Reader's Digest. The piece presents simple advice to combat feeling at a dead end and offers practical steps from a physician's perspective. The article aims to provide hopeful guidance for readers facing despair.
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Reader's Digest
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