Chicago Woman Serves 10 Year Robbery Sentence Over Love Triangle
Ruth Strickland, 23, formerly Barbara Williams, flew to Kentucky and attempted a theater hold up with a toy gun to help two lovers marry. She is serving ten years while relatives officials and Mayor Washburn seek mercy and clemency from Gov. Chandler.
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Kentucky Women's Prison
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Ruth Strickland
Barbara Williams
Hazel Strickland Jones
Harvey, Il
Ruth
Kentucky
Price
Bull Elk Too Ornery Loses State Protection
In Purango Colorado a two year old bull elk, deemed too old to forage, seized a ranch feed lot and blocked access for livestock and the rancher. Game officials intervened noting stiffness and quarrelsomeness and euthanized the animal with a bullet to the brain.
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Purango
Colo
Jackson Fidle
Wooning
Police Catch Kids Looting Foundry Iron in San Francisco
W A Schimmelpfenning reported children carrying away foundry pieces and detectives found a nine year old girl with 200 pounds of pig iron a second girl with a large casting two boys with a coaster and others who admitted stealing two carloads of fish plates and a ton of iron being sold to junk dealers.
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San Francisco
W. A. Schimmelpfenning
Thieves Hold Up Salinas Woman After Warning
In Salinas California police Captain Ralph Placie warned residents of bandits in the district. Miss Margaret Adams answered the call at 1 15 AM and heard the warning then thieves entered her apartment holding a pistol to her temple and fled with 55 dollars.
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Salinas
Calif
Ralph Placie
Margaret Adams
Placie
Mother saves child from 14 foot well in Texas
In Childress Texas Mrs O J Rickman lowered a rope to her two year old son Donald Glenn Rickman who had fallen into a 14 foot well. She slid down rope to rescue him pulling him from two feet of water. The child had only bruises while she suffered rope burn.
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Childress
Texas
Donald Glenn Rickman
Household Illumination Unchanged in 25 000 Yrs
The article surveys late 18th century lamps by Aimee Argand and John Miles that transformed illumination with a vertical wick and closed reservoir. It notes early trials to burn inexpensive greases and mentions US efforts by John Love who earned a 1798 patent for a tallow lamp, with evidence of pre 1810 lard lamp invention in America.
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Aimee Argand
John Miles
Argand
Miles
Atlantic
John Love
South Carolina
United States
Thomas P. Jones
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Patent Office
Blue Hole of Castalia Presents Geological Puzzle
The Blue Hole at Castalia Ohio puzzles scientists as a sudden surface spring in a limestone region. Cold Creek flows three miles to Lake Erie from an elevation of 630 feet, with waters rich in lime and magnesia that petrify organic material and resist freezing.
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Blue Hole
Castalia
Ohio
Lake Erie
Henry Howe
Legend of Superstition Mountain Mine Saga
A Detroit News correspondent recounts Superstition Mountain near Phoenix and its legends. Snowbeard the Dutchman, Jacob Walz, killed heirs and a nephew to guard a hidden Dutchman's mine, shot others seeking it, and died in 1892 without revealing the mine’s location. a bronze tablet marks his grave.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Detroit News
Sonora
Mexico
Jacob Walz
Snowbeard
Pilots Reach Billion Miles in Licensed Flight
A Commerce Department study shows licensed pilots have accumulated about 1.054 billion miles. Transport pilots, the highest license type, account for roughly eleven twelfths of the total, with private and limited commercial pilots making up the rest.
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Commerce Department
Department
Aeronautics Branch
New Dye in Use Bright blue pigment replaces older inks and paints
A new brilliant blue pigment, part of the pthalo cyanines family, shows excellent tastimess properties and is replacing older dyes in printing inks paints lacquers rubber wallpaper and linoleum. Pthalocyanines resemble chlorophyll in structure but researchers found no natural occurrence.
World War II Headlines Stir Global Tensions
Red army claims breakthrough on Finland's Mannerheim line and France vows full war stock for Finns. Daring Altmark incident sparks neutrality debate as British rescue crews recover prisoners from a German ship. Poland reports guerilla warfare in occupied regions amid Germany's submarine threat. Swedish officials bar foreign troops from passing through to Finland. British submarine Daring sinks with 157 dead. Republican convention set for June 24 in Philadelphia.
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Red Army
Finland
Mannerheim
France
Altmark
Norway
Poland
Germany
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
Sweden
Estigarrabia
Paraguay
Tennis Tournament Planned For High School Courts
Raymond Todd announces a local tennis tournament for men and women to be held at the high school courts. The men’s division will begin first, with women’s play to follow. A summer tennis club led by Harvey Gaede may support the event, and interested players can contact Todd at Richland school grounds or by phone.
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Raymond Todd
Todd
Harvey Gaede
Richland
Operetta Rehearsals Start At Richland School
Pupils at Richland School began rehearsals for the operetta Windmills of Holland with chorus groups practicing songs. Many principal characters have been chosen but a full cast is not yet set. No presentation date has been announced.
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Richland School
Windmills of Holland
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