Boy Lives After He Is Buried in Manzanola Funeral Confusion
In Manzanola Kansas a funeral was held for Billy Johnson after a body found hanging near Provo Utah was shipped home. The father disputed the corpse identity until a Denver call revealed the living boy alive. Sheriff details and a mysterious hanging body remain under investigation.
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Manzanola
Kan
Billy” Johnson
Ropy
Billy
Guaries Johnson
Provo
Utah
Johnson
Manzraneda
John
Mr. Johnson
Denver
Old Town Hall May Be Abandoned
West Pelham Massachusetts residents consider abandoning the town hall used for public meetings for 175 years and plan a community house to replace it.
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Old Town Hall
West Pelham
Maas
Reforms turn crook Sophia Lyons to successful charity work
Sophia Lyons, 30 years an international crook and 40 years a businesswoman, says she vowed to reform after prison. She details a street education, a first real estate job, and generating nearly a million dollars from independent real estate deals. She funds homes for wayward girls and prison reform, giving most of her income to charity.
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Detroit
Sophia Lyons
Europe
America
Europa
Sophia Igons
House of Correction
Auto crashes through bridge railing over Skookumehuck river
Centralia reports a blacksmith named John By man unhurt when his auto crashed through bridge railing over the Skookumehuck river and fell into the water. Yukon river expected to open in two or three weeks. Bils train blocked by snow drift. William A Schnell walks 20 miles to his wedding. Axel Smith wins Grays Harber Rod and Gun club prize with a 15 pound 3 ounce steelhead. Jens Merton, habitual criminal, sent to state reformatory. officers seek transfer to state penitentiary.
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Centralia
John
Skookumehuck River
Mital
Yukon River
Chicago
Wm. A. Schnell
Grandte Falia—Tlarcest
Washington
Kase & Burchar Pulp Wood
Aberdeen
Axel Smith
Grays Harter
Whiskers Fatal to Bird in Parrot Death Tale
Bolivar New York April 22 Abner Mauley trained a parrot named Pete to talk and perform tricks. When Pete kissed Mauley the parrot pulled whiskers and died later from poisoning. Autopsy concluded dye from Mauley’s whiskers killed the bird.
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Bolivar
N. Y
Abner Mauley
Ile
Mauley
Pete
Mr Mauley
Mr. Mauley
Ken DeGroat
Dr. DeGroat
Woman and Two Children Start Long Walk to Indiana
Mrs Mary Allen age 22 began a trek from Newark New Jersey to Wabash Indiana with her two children in a perambulator. Her husband is in Wabash and she has no funds for travel.
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Newark
N. J
Mary Allen
Wabash
Ind
Cemetery opened years ago is closed
Philadelphia April 22 The burial ground of St Michael’s Lutheran Church has been closed. It opened 200 years ago. Many who made colonial history are buried there.
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Philadelphia
St. Michael's Lutheran Church
Use for Ocean Tigers at Fort Myers Plant
A 1915 article notes Ocean Leather Co plans to tan ocean tiger skins at a Sanibel plant. Alfred Ehrenreich, president, profits from selling European and South American rights to the process. The firm operates plants in Brunswick Georgia and North Carolina with future sites in Key West and New Orleans. Shark liver oil is produced for medicinal use.
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Fort Myers
Mla
Bieter
Sanibel
Alfred Ehreinrich
Ocean Leather Co
Mhreinrich
Itsa
Brumwick
North Carolina
Key Weert
New Orleans
Paris Woman Among Five Captured in Hotel Terror Spree
A group of five robbers, including a woman, who used a new asphyxiating revolver to terrorize hotels in Paris and the Riviera have been caught. Their loot in recent weeks is believed to total $200,000.
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Paris
Riviera
Stage Money Heist Shocks Chicago Collector
Clarence Beatty, a Chicago money collector, says thieving bandits stole $1,000,000 in stage money. Beatty notes the notes were bought six years ago for 26 cents per hundred thousand and treated as a joke about their value. He remains unfazed by the loss.
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Chicago
Clarence Beatty
Beatty
Piano mission to bring classical music to Whitechapel slum
Sir Hugh P. Allen of the Royal College of Music proposes taking a street piano into Whitechapel to show slum children would enjoy refined tunes. The article notes the current street air as filthy and contrasts it with the hoped cultural uplift.
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London
Hugh P. Allen
Te Royal College of Music
Whitechapel
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