Betting Conspiracy Tied to Omaha Match Officials
The excerpt describes a syndicate arranging bets on a forthcoming Omaha match. A farmer’s wife eats sherbets while a patriarchal farmer awaits involvement. A. B. Shores is to wrestle the millionaire’s man, with plans to throw the bout. A $10,000 check is prepared to back the plan as betting proceeds.
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Omaha
Stowe
A. B. Shores
Gordon
Ominha
Fourche Creek
George Wilson
Minnesota
P.hingid
Millionaire Swindle Ring Brought to Justice
A vast fraud operation tied to con men calling themselves millionaires exploited investors nationwide. Agents in 306 cities used land schemes and racing bets to fleece victims, with elaborate offices and a red coded registry. The Little Rock and Council Bluffs cases led to federal warrants, arrests, and dramatic takedowns, including a deadly horse race ruse and a break by postal inspectors.
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Fraud Trust
New Orleans
Seattle
Gonnell Bluffs
Hadsa
Frev
Conference on Coal Mine Wages Set for April 22
New York April 13 A meeting of anthracite coal operators discussed the labor dispute after reports of a potential 10 percent wage cut. About fifty operators attended led by E D Thomas G F Barr W H Truesdale L F Loree F D Underwood W J Richards and others. The operators approved the action of a seven member committee and named an eleven member panel to draft policy, with a report due at the April 22 meeting.
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New York
Trunk Line Association
France Exiles Ciprio Castro From Martinique Fort De France
Cipriano Castro former president of Venezuela is forcibly expelled from Martinique by French authorities. He protests but is carried to a Versailles steamship bound for St Nazaire. Police serve the exit order with nine hours to depart. Castro seeks legal delay but remains subject to removal.
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Fort de France
Indictments Tie Lottery Promotion to Mail Fraud
Federal grand jury indicts Cooper Investment Company of Cooper Texas and Rock Island Township Company of Gazebo Oklahoma for using the mails to advertise a lottery. Officials L F Walls W W Raines J H Ellison and Al Sexton allegedly ran offices in Memphis and previously operated in Little Rock. They also ran Santa Fe Town Missouri Kansas Texas Town and Texas Land companies with town sites at Cooper Goteba Pleasant Valley Wigin Brockville and New Walla Oklahoma. Indictments say promoters offered 790 lots with a Forty three acre farm worth 8000 and one chance with each lot. drawing to occur after all lots sold.
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Little Rock, Ark
Cooper “Investment Company
Cooper, Tex
Rock’ Island
Gazebo
Okla
L.F. Walls
W. W. Raines
J. H.ellison
al Sexton
Memphis
Santa Fe Town Company
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Town Company
Texas Land Company
Cooper
Tex
Goteba
Pleasant Valley
Wigin
Brockville
New Walla
Earth Trembles in Peru Report of Shaking in Lima
Peru reports a seismic event with tremors felt in Lima during April. The brief describes movement westward and accompanying rumblings, noting reported measurements and confusion in wording. No clear agency or official figures are provided in the fragments.
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Peru
Lima
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Myers
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Louis Stowe
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W. G. Whipple
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Giguia
Peete
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CIP
CASRO
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