Mother Sees Son Blow Self Up With Dynamite
In Middletown New York Floyd Tiffany a quarry owner acted oddly and placed a dynamite stick on the ground He lit a fuse and died after an explosion His mother ran to intervene and was thrown to the turf but survived. her son lay dead near the damaged ground and his hat.
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Son
Middletown
N. Y
Floyd Tiffany
Roscoe
Tiffany
Mra ‘Kifany
Mrs.Tiffany
Mrs. Tiffany
Bird Woman Ends Her Life
Police investigate the mysterious death of a wealthy young woman who used the name Agnes MacDuff Firth of York. She had been staying Nebon and studied aviation there, took poison, and died without leaving any explanation.
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Uwnattet Press
Paris
Agnes MacDuff Firth
York
Nebon
Free Text Books Cost Under a Dollar Per Pupil
W Deffenbaugh of the United States bureau of education says the cost in 25 typical American cities averages less than one dollar per pupil per year for free textbooks.
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W. Deffenbaugh
United States Bureau of Education
Potlatch Grand Stand Seat Plan Promises Free Carnival View
Potlatch management offers a single grand stand seat for $1 to watch all four days and nights of the carnival. The charge covers grand stand construction while all events are otherwise free, a first for Pacific coast cities. The plan is on display at Potlatch headquarters in the 227 Henry building.
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Potlatch
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Foster
Henry Building
Burglar Apprehended After Watch Switch in Pratt
A burglar attempted a home invasion at G. H. Christopher’s residence in Pratt, Kansas. Mrs Christopher awakened, yielding a chase that ended when Christopher seized the intruder at the front door after the burglar offered his watch as security for a promised 8 o clock return, which did not occur.
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Pratt
Kan
G. H. Christopher
Christopher Wa
Christopher
Market prices from local merchants and tribe report
The page lists average prices paid by local commission merchants and producers across beef pork fruits and vegetables and feeds. It includes buying and selling prices for different grades, meat sections, poultry, produce like cantaloupes rhubarb potatoes carrots and lettuce, and selling prices for feeds timothy alfalfa wheat oats and mixed grains.
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Leoina
Tadler
Apes Everssad Wassecenee
Valencia
Washington
Tim- Ouny
Puget Sound
Moore John Mason in As a Man Thinks and Cabaret Girl acts
A list of acts and theatre houses is given including Moore John Mason in As a Man Thinks at Metropolitan Dark and Seattie Frank Rich Co in The Cabaret Girl at Orpheum Vaudeville. It also mentions Emprese Vaudeville Pantages Grand vaudeville Clemmer Photoplays Melbourne Photoplays and Alhambravudeville programs.
U S Advises Folk to Get Mail Boxes
Postmaster Russell issues a notice urging patrons to install mail boxes or door slots to speed delivery. Private receptacles reduce missed deliveries, allow earlier stops on end routes, and improve service with minimal cost.
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U.S
Sam Han
Russell
Publile
Postoffice
Slays Father to Save Mother in Missouri Tragedy
In Harrisonville Missouri July a farmer J W O Bannon was shot and killed at home near Creighton by his 12 year old son Jesse O Bannon. The youth, in custody, says he fired to protect his mother after the father threatened to kill the family and advanced with a shotgun. Lloyd O Bannon corroborates the boy's account.
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Harrisonville
J. W. O'Bannon
Creighton
Jesse O'Bannon
Lloyd O'Bannon
Butler's Liquid Tooth Filler Advertisement
An advertisement fragment touts Butler's Liquid Tooth Filler as a remedy for dental ache with a 25 cent price tag for druggists.
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Butler's
Movie Listings at Five Theaters This Week
The Olympian offers Belinda the Slav y Welcome Intruder The Scales of Justice The 20 000 Carot tonight and runs until Thursday. Elite shows The Struggle and Mr Jefferson Green through Thursday. Yester presents A Victim of Heredity A Romance of the Ozarks White Lies Don’t Worry until Wednesday. Dream runs The Miner’s Destiny Sweet Deception An Old Man’s Deception Faust and the Lily at Cle mer through Wednesday. Class A features The Angel of the Slams Pathe Weekly Sally’s Sure Shot Love’s Quarantine until Wednesday. Melbourne screens The Penalty of Crime One Good Joke Deserves Another A Gamble With Death until Wednesday. The Seal of Silence A Modern Lochinvar The Politician at Melbourne.
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Belinda
Yester
Ozarks
Los Angeles
Cal
Faust
Pathe Weekly
Sally
Swim to Work Is Capital's Latest
Washington residents adopt a novel commute by swimming to work. They start in bathing suits, swim diagonally across the Potomac to a boathouse about a mile away, change to street clothes, work, then return by swimming back home after hours.
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Washington
D. C
Potomac
Girl of Four Is Her Own Cousin
Mrs. Jennie Golden seeks annulment of her marriage to Christian Golden to straighten out the lineage of their four year old daughter Margaret. The pair argue the union creates an impossible second cousin relationship for the child.
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Minneapolis
Jennie Golden
Margaret
Lfe
Christian Golden
Escaped Prisoner Seeks Parole in Arkansas Case
Governor Futrell has received a parole application for Jess Freshean who killed his father near Paragould Green County and escaped from a convict camp after a 20 year sentence on a guilty plea. He is said to live near Kennett Missouri and seeks parole to help support his mother and younger siblings.
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Little Rock
Ark
Futrell
Jess Freshean
Paragould
Green County
Missouri
Kennett
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