Love Vampire Involved in Multi City Romance Fraud
George Flasher, a bachelor farmer from Eau Claire, says a woman he calls a love vampire and her male companion defrauded him of about $9000 after a train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. The couple allegedly planned a Phildelphia wedding while using gifts and diamonds to gain trust. The case involves detectives and officials in Chicago Los Angeles Philadelphia, with Flasher detailing the scheme and his intention to return to Wisconsin.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Canto
Ray Turner
Claire
Flasher
East Street
Mar
California
Angeles
Rob Flasher
Wisconsin
Millionaires Hired as Sheriff's Deputies
In White Plains New York on August 12 deputies were added to Sheriff Wossiter s force through a requisition of S T Hodgman head of the Hodgman Rubber Company and John De Camp Van Etten an officer of the firm all described as millionaires.
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White Plains
N. Y
Cevere
Wossiter
S. T. Hodgman
Hodgman Rubber Company
John de Camp van Etten
Samuel Gompers to become property owner at last
Washington Aug 13 Samuel Gompers head of the American Federation of Labor is set to own a house in the capital city The home was previously in his daughter’s name and later in his wife’s name Now with his wife dead and her will being probated he may formally become the owner of the First Street residence marking an end to his long struggle to avoid bourgeois property.
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Washington
Samuel Gompera
American Federation of Labor
Sam
Gompers
First St
35Th Ot
Federation
Stars Turned to Business Ventures Across New York
Frankie Bailey now works at a Greenwich Village restaurant after once being billed as the world’s most beautiful legs. Josie Sadler leads an electrical laboratory with her son as assistant. Lillian Russell advises on beauty, Edna Wallace Mopper sells stocks and bonds and backs a corset maker. Sophie Tucker runs restaurants and a Long Island garage. Amelia Summerville authored a book on beauty and created a facial cream. Stars prove versatile beyond the stage.
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New York
Frankie Bailey
Greenwich Village
Josie Sadler
George Ades
Peggy
Paris
Lillian Russell
Edna Wallace Mopper
Sophie Tucker
Long Island
Amelia Summerville
Merry Mountain Maid
Mother Sees Boy Drowned in Dream
Norman Plater six years old drowned while fishing in London. His mother testified to the coroner that she dreamed of his death the night he was missing, waking in terror and screaming.
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London
Norman Plater
Haig Plans Visit to South Africa
Johannesburg report says Field Marshal Haig has accepted an invitation to visit South Africa in February next year. The planned trip aims to strengthen Allied ties and assess postwar strategic themes.
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Haig
South Africa
Johannesburg
Far
Mind Not in Brain Says Paris Doctor
Professor Trouds claims the brain is not the seat of mental activity. Experiments by eminent surgeons after the war suggest the mind may reside in another part of the body, possibly the trunk. He refused to name the doctors who supplied the data.
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Trouds
Troude
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