Madrid Police Track Old "Dying Prisoner" Swindle
Madrid reports the return of the Spanish swindle known as the dying prisoner scam. Letters claim a prisoner dying in Spain communicates through a chaplain to release a valise of valuables. The scheme targets American relatives abroad and has drew attention from embassies and consulates. An American who came with a certified check was confined by Spanish police until convinced he was duped. an American consul later intervened to send him home.
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Madrid
America
Spain
Hone
Mexican Women Wake Up in Public Life Push
Mexican feminist council in Mexico City aims to tackle social and industrial evils and later seek political equality. Senorita Eléha Torres says mass suffrage not yet feasible but women will form a vital political force and organize workers in industry. The group seeks international links and world peace cooperation.
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Mexico City
Mex
Mexican Feminist Council
Senorita Eléha Torres
Senorita Torres
Mexico
United States
250000 Orphans Wandering Homeless in Armenia Report
Swiss pastor Dr. Kunzler told a Zurich audience that 250000 Armenian orphans are homeless and roaming Armenia. He cites war devastation and demobilized Turkish troops as the cause of ongoing killings and theft.
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Geneva
Kunzler
Armenia
Zurich
Woman Saves Boy By Torn Underskirt Tourniquet
In New York a five year old boy named Leonard Hopevell was run over by a trolley at 147th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. A bystander tore off her underskirt to fashion a tourniquet around the boy’s mangled right ankle. Surgeons at St Lawrence Hospital amputated the foot but the woman’s actions saved his life and she disappeared into the crowd.
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New York
Laanard Hopevell
Adindredt
Forty Seventh Street
Amsterdam Avenue
St. Lawrence , Hospital
Aig
Typewriter Ribbons For Sale At The Report Office
Burroughs adding machine paper and L C Smith typewriter ribbons offered for sale at the Report office.
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Sale
Burroughs
L. C. ‘Smith
Restoration to Entry of Lands in Tongass National Forest Alaska
Public notice announces land parcels within Tongass National Forest Alaska open for settlement and entry under homestead laws. It lists two tracts with metes and bounds and names applicants Ben Leibrant Kasaan Alaska and Harry D Colp Petersburg Alaska, detailing dates for opening August 2 1920 and prior preferences for settlers veterans and pre1906 claimants.
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Metes
Forest Service Monument
Long Island
Kasaan Cannery
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S. M
Beach
Ben Leibrant
Kasaan Alaska
Forest Service
Five Mile Creek
WFSM
Sukoi Island
Wood Point
Thomas Bay
Creek
Harry D. Colp
Petersburg
Alaska
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