Newspaper Snippets Brighten City Crowds and Odd Tales
In New York a speaker received an impromptu greeting at Union Station while a woman named Jane Doe was arrested for masquerading in her dead brother’s clothes to flee home to Naples. A Swiss debutante appears as Fraulein Von Petvold. A tuberculosis patient coughs up a tenacious iron staple after eight years in his lung. London embraces quinine water as a summer beverage, touted by an Indian traveler.
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Fat contractor dives into Mississippi River in New Orleans area
In Donalsville Louisiana on August 29 Wilson Arnold a wealthy contractor jumped into the Mississippi River leaving a note that he was unloved by his wife. He weighed about 300 pounds and did not account for the river’s current. He surfaced and drifted downstream where bystanders intervened.
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