The Letterhead Swindler Tricks with Imposed Firm Names
A Buffalo News study shows how a letterhead swindler uses forged or borrowed business papers to obtain goods and cash. He obtains a firm’s letterhead, uses a printer for a convincing proof, and then executes thefts by posing as a representative seeking urgent orders. He also hires a cart and paints it with a firm name to placate victims and may cash worthless checks using fake householder handwriting and plausible excuses.
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Buffalo News
Tate
Chatem
Miss Gladys Hanson Discusses Diet Exercise and Beauty
In a candid interview Miss Gladys Hanson shares beauty secrets focusing on diet and rest. She outlines a strict two meal day plan, daily exercises inspired by West Point routines, and the value of rest akin to Mrs. Fiske's pre show routine.
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Hubbard Ayer
Gladys Hanson
Katherine Strickland
Republic Theater
Miss Hanson
Atlanta
West Point
Married Life the Third Year in a Harlem Movie
In a night out before a move, Helen and Warren drift from a restaurant to an outdoor Harlem cinema. They watch melodrama and a banker's son plot, noting crowd dynamics and the era’s cheap theater culture amid a sultry summer evening.
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Helen
Warren
Harlem Ward
Board of Censors
Clerk
Harlem
Shan
Butlers and Westerns Blend in Cinema Scene
In a crowded theater, Whitren jokes about a millionaire’s home set as a butler wobbles between luxury furnishings. A western sequence follows, with cowboys, pistols, and a lyric pianist, while Helen critiques the melodrama and muses about writing a simple, real-life story.
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Whitren
Helen
Warren
War
New Parcels Post Stamps Set for January 1 Start
Washington reports the parcels post opens January 1 with twelve large stamps issued in three series. First series features modern mail transport including a railway mail car ocean steamer and postal motor wagon plus an aircraft. The second shows postal workers at work and the third depicts four industrial zones. By December 1 stamps ready for distribution to 60 000 post offices nationwide. Niagara power developers seek to control nearly all of Niagara Falls output.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Shortest electric road to serve senators in Washington
A 700 foot monorail tunnel between the capitol and senate office building will ferry twelve senators and thirty six pages. The single car runs on a lower rail with a broad rail on the roof for balance and power through a hinge arm.
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Washington
Capitol
Senate
Rules Committee
The
Capitol Dome
House
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J. M. Krakauer
South Alama
Lucchese Bros
Losoya Street
Mabel Herbert Urner
Broadway
Electroliers
Wopman
Newton, Weller & Wagner CO
Ren
India
Ganges
Hugh
Garret
Ziegler & Ziegler
Ziegler
East
Houston St
Niagara
Schaefer Drug Co
Quality Pharmacy
Ave.c
Sam Antonio
Thos. C. Neilson
Swearingen-McCraw
South
West
SAN Antonio Business College
Alamo Plaza
San Antonio
Tex
Lodovic Printing Co
Lodovic
House of Good Printing
Main Plaza
Law
Pen Ekan
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