Court hears how Hin moulded counterfeit coin scheme
United States Commissioner Paul A. Lockhart heard testimony on a scheme by Ian William Lewis and B H Moss to counterfeit a gold coin. Ferguson described meeting the pair and a plan to invest $600 to print, mold, and finish a coin in minutes using a mould, a Mexican accomplice, and acid to coat the surface before passing it at a drug store. The two men were held on $2,090 bonds.
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Ian Wiliam Lewis
B. H. Moss
United States
Paul A. Lockhart
S.C. Ferguson
Scotty Flores
Mizel
Lewis and Moss
Ferguson
Hic
Polmnsky
Ritter
Ike
Ferguem Saif
West
Houston Street
Moss
Early Chaco Truce Seen Between Bolivia and Paraguay
In Buenos Aires August 12 INS reports Paraguay wants to revert to Supe 1 lines in the Chaco dispute while Bolivia seeks current positions. The foreign ministry expresses confidence an early truce can be arranged based on recent negotiations led by Foreign Minister Saavedra Alvaroa and other South American diplomats.
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Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Buenos Atres
INS
Foreign Ministry
Foreign Office
Woman Shot in Parked Car in Roxbury
In Boston Roxbury a woman named Miss May Collins was shot in a parked car on Audubon road Beck Bay. Officer Lawrence Loughlin chased down a suspect Clifton A. Picken 36 of Huntington Avenue Back Bay a Coast Guard warrant officer who allegedly had a revolver with four chambers empty. Collins and Alice Ray denied knowing Picken and police questioned him after he claimed to be with the women earlier.
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Bobton
May Collins
Worthington Street
Roxbury
Audubon Road
Beck Bay
Girriend
Lawrence Loughlin
Back Bay
Clifton A. Picken
Huntington Avenue
Coast Guard Service
Haymarket Relief Hospital
Picken
Collins Girl
Alice Ray
Astor Street
Miss Collins
Miss Ray
Old Natick Habit Nets Officer $1
Natick Mass August 12 burgl ar m alarm rang to Natick bank. Pedestrians withdrew as police and firemen arrived. Arthur Whyten dashed inside and returned with a one dollar bill given as a local custom to the first officer on scene after a burglary alarm.
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Natick
Mass
Priremen P. Arthur
Whyten
Gas Field Extended Three Miles on Gray Lease
Barbourville Ky Aug. 1. The Himgar gas field has been extended three miles by a new strike on the Gray lease near Flat Lick. Production rose from 1,500,000 cubic feet by the new well drilled 2100 feet down a permeable sandstone. Twenty-one deep gas wells have been drilled in the field with total daily production exceeding 39,000,600 cubic feet.
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Barbourville
Himgar
Gray
Flat Lick
New Plea for Divorce Cited in San Francisco Case
Mrs Catherine Blair Gardiner seeks divorce from Joseph H Gardiner a salesman. She alleges Halloween party coercion and being locked out with a note demanding she leave. Judge C J Goodell grants a decree and $23 weekly alimony for one year through attorney Clarence W Morris.
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San Francisco
Catherine Blair Gardiner
Ven Ness Avenue
Supreme
C. J. Goodell
Joseph H. Gardiner
Hallowe'en
Ble
Boy Playing Ball Killed in Thunderstorm Attack
Rockton records Hazel Garetson a 1b died when Neghi ning struck beneath a tree during a thunderstorm. The tragedy occurred as the boy played ball, leaving details terse and a note of fatality.
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Rockton
Hazel Garetson
Neghining
Earth Receives Annual Dust Shower From Comet Remnants
In Lake Geneva Wisconsin Dr Otlo Struve of Yerkes Observatory notes the earth’s atmosphere is receiving its annual bombardment of cosmic dust particles heated by friction. This year the shower appears more clearly than last year with about one particle per minute. The grains originate from Tuttie’s comet, last seen around 1882.
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Lake Geneva
Wis. Ag
Iperseld
Otlo Struve
Yerkes Observatory
Yisline
Tuttie
Illness Blamed for New York Death by Self Action
New York, Aug 12. Mar ton C. Nichols an 80 year old social figure committed suicide at home. He reportedly heard too much party chatter, locked himself in a hot suite, swallowed poison, inhaled chloroform, then hanged himself with a rope. His mother in law said he had long suffered from death trouble and asthma.
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New York
Marton C. Nichols
Social
Pershing War Horse Sir Oliver Retires in Tennessee
MEMPHIS Tenn Aug 19 The horse once ridden by General Pershing in World War I spends its later days at a Tennessee guard stables near Petermen? He is 34 and still active, described as good up to the last. Sergeant Henry W Wiggis notes the horse may live several years or die any time. Sir Oliver earned jumping honors at the Charleston national guard camp last summer.
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Memphis
Tenn
John Pershity
Oliver
Tennessee National Guard
Antil
Sir Oliver
National Guard
Charleston
N.C
Two Girls Escape New Prison Flee Fence
Dwight August report notes two girls scaled a wire fence at a new women’s reformatory. One was captured during the escape while the other remains at large near the Quick Lawn Cemetery area as authorities pursue further action.
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New Prison
Dwight
Iivole Women's Reformatory
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