Chaplin settles with wife for $850000 breakup ends
Charles Chaplin and estranged wife Lita Grey reach a property settlement and divorce by mutual consent. custody of their two children Charles Spencer Jr and Sydney Eagle granted to Lita Grey. Chaplin reportedly pays cash and waives claims to future earnings of The Circus era films.
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International Nowe Bertha
Los Angeles
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Bia
Chaplin
Lin
Acton
A Chaplin
Cowboys Forsake Plains Por Planes Barred by Elko Veteran
Jim Russell, longtime Elko County resident and top hand, laments shortages as Cowboys seek air travel over land. He claims lack of leadership and a recent stunt by Lindberg worsened conditions, leaving crews discontent and eager to ride the air rather than the soil.
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Jim Russell
Elko County
Russell Bee Yeen
Linderg
He's Unluckiest State Policeman in August
August 20 Leon Sheverd, a state highway policeman, won an anticlimactic title after an accident left him in Augusta General Hospital with a fractured right leg. He was flung from his motorcycle when it collided with a car in Bowdoinham. two other riders escaped with minor injuries. In Bristol, England, August 20, Victor Byelra Amesturg, 33, convicted for the fifty-seventh time as an incorrigible rogue, faced a harsh sentence.
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Sugust
Leon Sheverd
Etete Highway Police
Augusta General Hospital
Sarans
Bowdoin- Mm
Warates
Elso
Bristol
England
Byelra Amesturg
Prisoner Tear Strike At County Jail Report
San Bernardino prison officials report 24 year old Davyd Lonez in a tear strike at the county jail after a shoplifting sentence. Lopez, jailed for alleged theft, vowed to cry himself to dent as hours passed. Guards warned he would be placed in the prison bathroom if he failed to stop crying within eleven hours.
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Ualversat Serries
San Bernarding
Ang
Lonez
Lopez
Loper
Teper
Psychology to Give UG Jobs in Missouri Tests
In Columbia Missouri Aug 20 students at the University of Missouri undergo a battery of psychological tests devised by Dr Moser to reveal innate abilities for careers. The apparatus names include lectometer cheimeter exactometer and other measures to gauge preference timing abstract thinking and emotional control.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Maz Moser
Meyer
Lack of Whiskey Fatal to Baby in Terre Haute
Fragmentary police report notes a baby died after whiskey access was prevented by the father in Terre Haute. The record lacks full details but indicates neglect or deprivation may have caused the fatal outcome.
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Terre Haute
Rescue Prospects Dim as Cave Missing Explorer Fades
In Deauville on August 20, 1927, searchers near Nickajack cave reported finding a human skull as they continued frantic efforts to locate explorer Floyd Collins ally Laurence Ashley who vanished during a solo descent. Officials fear his death after days of fruitless forays and perilous river passages. In other news, Deauville casinos opened to women for the first time with high stakes gambling and a diamond clad countess drawing attention at a gala dinner.
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Tarleton Collier
Univereat Earvice
Biel Mocnd
Tenn
Laurence
Ashley
Floyd Collins
Steds
Aebler
Nickajack Cave
Ater Senrs
Ike Ashley
Bang Mountain
Bill Parker
Claude McBee
Ashrey
Black River
Euick Ashley
Dniereal Service
Deauvilee
Deauville 2
Henri Exitellier
Yele Hentiquet
Fortgne
Lettellier
Deauville
Channel Coast
Areer
Fogey Cooper Hewitt T
Ghateaubriand
Order of Grand Commander of the Legion of Honor
Writ Seeks Order to Bar Wife from Dances
August F Stroby seeks an injunction from Judge Theodore Riekter in circuit court to restrain his wife from outings at dances. He claims Miss Lewine Wilson, a boarder from a previous marriage, has for over a year taken his wife to dances and other places several evenings, bringing her companion, a young man, into the Stroby home, while he remains away at work.
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Deirole
Aug Duan O
Lust
August F. Stroly
Theodore J. Riekter
Lewine Wilton
Mise Wilson
Misa Wilson
Dire
Mexico Zoo Claims Monk Read Tutankimen Era Writings
Mexico City reports that a rare Egyptian monkey at the national zoo is said to understand written words. The monk’s reading ability, noted by Excelsior, reportedly is limited to texts from the Tutankhamen era and not general literacy.
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Calsersal Sergics
Mexico City
Mexico
National
Riviera hotel keeper guilty of murder, 20 years
In Monte Carlo, Etienne Blangino, wealthy Riviera hotel keeper, was sentenced to twenty years penal servitude for the murder of his wife and another daughter. A three year old child, the only direct witness, testified that daddy cut mummy and sister, despite Blangino's protests of innocence.
Old Cattle War Reflections and New Water Projects
In a reflective piece the author recalls the cattle war era across New Mexico and Texas and notes the return of civilization as Billy the Kid is referenced. The government has appropriated 32 million dollars for the Taos Plaza dam project to bring irrigation water to farmland along the river, with plans for an electric distribution system underway.
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Pegoe
Tesus
Billy i
Pat Garrett
New Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
Teil Plaza
Color Films Without a Camera Invention Shown
London August 20 two Englishmen unveiled a new invention that can display a person in natural color on a screen without using a film negative. A microphone and two loudspeakers allow the broadcaster to transmit the image and sound simultaneously.
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London
Brother Love Guts Sentenge In Chicago Court
George Reinhart and his brother Albert stood chained before Judge William J. Lindsay as a string of robberies were considered. George claimed responsibility for all thefts while Albert was shot nine times during a thwarted Evanston robbery attempt. The judge rejected George's plea but sentenced both brothers to five years.
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Chicago
William J. Lindsay
George Reinhart
Albert
Lwu
Evanston 1
Son Finds Father He Never Had Seen
A 7 year old boy in Pineville Ey. Aus. 20- found his father by accident when a misdelivered Oakland package led to a family connection. Structural engineer BH Knuckles of Oakland learned the boy resembled his sister’s family and traced a link to Sammuel Knuckles near Pineville. After decades apart, the two learned they were father and son.
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Pineville
Aus
Knuckles
Oakland
Cal
Sammuel Knockles
D. H. Hotckles
Samuel Knuckles
Ramnel Kugekles
Ksanekdes
California
Shere
Shakespearean Caesar Controversy Casts Doubt on Latin Scholar
Berkeley Aug 20 Dean Montor F Deutsch professor of Latin at the University of California challenges Shakespeare's Caesar funeral account. After thirteen months researching in the libraries of France and Italy he presents a lively, if controversial, view linking Julius Caesar to a playful childhood rhyme about a geeker and an ice cream freezer.
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Shakespeare
Caesar
Berkeley
Cel
Julius Caesar
Montor F. Deutsch
University of California
France
I Aly
Fire Destroys Texas Town Business District
A large fire in Indian Gap Texas Aug 20 caused about 40000 in losses. The blaze damaged most of the town center, including the German-American State Bank, with origin undetermined and many notes and records lost.
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Indian Gap
Gersmen-armer State Bank
Draper Scored in Montreal Controversy Over Typhoid Warning
Montreal Aug 20 Alderman James Morgan condemned United States assistant surgeon Dr W I Draper for criticizing the city's typhoid fever control. Draper at a Baltimore medical conference warned Montreal was unsafe for Americans amid 5000 typhoid cases and 403 deaths in the three months starting March 7. Local officials debated a reprimand, which colleagues did not approve.
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Montreal
W. I. Deeser
United States
James Morgan
Th. Draper
Baltimore
Viert
Morgen
Draper
Dominion
Man Is Burned Gassing Cats
New York August 2 George Muirhead a 75 year old Mount Vernon dog catcher was severely burned in an apparent gas mishap while attempting to kill animals. The blast occurred after he lit a fire and the device exploded, injuring him.
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New York
George Muirhead
Mount Vernon
Three hundred suicides in Monte Carlo amid casino crisis
Monte Carlo officials report that about three hundred self-inflicted deaths occurred in the past year within the principality's casino environment. British aviator Douglas recounts witnessing a red haired man shoot himself at a gaming table and describes the immediate chaotic response and official concern over publicity.
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Bs Internnonal News Servier
Monte Carlo
Fares Douglas
Principality
Eaid Dougloe
Wwe
Blomf Etelon 1
Health claims on sauerkraut from Dr Bondesen report
A misread Bremen style note cites Dr Herman N Bondesen stating sauerkraut contains valuable nutrients and benefits health. It claims sauerkraut juice aids digestion and that the dish is a medical agent for pampered stomachs.
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Herman N. Bondesen
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