Jewelry of czar jewels melt. Brooklyn woman duped
Brooklyn resident Mrs Rebecca Barasch bought a “Romanoff treasure” from three men Stefano Anillo Frank Russo and Emanuel Fallacana who claimed the jewels were real. The diamonds dissolved leaving glass. Police tied the trio to other thefts as they watched the suspects for three days.
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New York
Rebecca Barasch
Crown Street
Brooklyn
Rogues
Romanoff
Stefano Anillo
Frank Russo
Emanuel Fallacana
Barasch
Czar
Russo
Cult Quitting Kansas Opposed to Tractors
In six months Amish farmers in southwest Kansas have dwindled from over 200 to about four families. They shun tractors phones window shades insurance radios phonographs and musical instruments. They move to New Jersey Virginia and Maryland to farm by their methods.
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Dodge City
Kan
Kansas
New Jersey
Virginia
Maryland
Technicality saves man from jail in blackjack case
Springfield, Mass. A legislative revision left blackjack absent from the dangerous weapons list. Robert Byrd, 39, escaped a potential two and a half year sentence after his lawyer argued the revised statutes did not name the blackjack as a dangerous weapon.
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Springfield
Mass
Robert Byrd
Jury Finds Capital Jail Unhealthful
Washington report by the grand jury calls the district jail antiquated and unhealthful where oil magnate Harry JF Sinclair and associate H Mason Day are housed for the summer. Attaches note that neither Sinclair nor Day has suffered effects.
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Washington
Harry JF. Sinclair
H. Mason Day
Sinclair
Day
Blue Grottoes cave opens near Harrisonburg Virginia
The Blue Grottoes near Harrisonburg Virginia formally opened by Col. B T Brown and Maj Edward M Brown after more than a year and over 100000 in development. It joins six Shenandoah caverns used in civil war times as a hiding place with walls bearing thousands of Confederate and Union soldier names from several states. The cave features multicolored formations and lies eight miles north of Harrisonburg under a limestone knoll on the Moore farm.
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Harrisonburg
Ohio
Iowa
Indiana
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
B. T. Brown
Maj
Edward M. Brown
Shenandoah Valley
Brown
New Market
Mount Solon
Valley Pike
Moore Farm
Costs Exactly $777 to Become Belgian Baron
The article explains that in Belgium the cost to become a baron is $777 or 27,000 francs, with King Albert granting 3 to 5 noble titles annually. Fees include a $150 registration, $110 for a baron title, $150 for a viscount, and up to $300 for a prince or duke, plus certificate costs. Some declined titles, including Brussels mayor Adolphe Max, believing their name sufficed.
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Brussels
Kingdom of
Belgium
Albert
Adolphe Max
Pocket Comb Key Frees In California Jail Break
In Modesto California Jack Burnett twenty two escapes by making a key from a pocket comb and slipping through a jail door. He vanished within half an hour prompting a nationwide description and an alert when he allegedly entered a residence from a rear door. Police confronted him as he fled on foot but Burnett remained at large at the last report.
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Modesto
Calif
Jack Burnett
Burnett
Arington
Dog Cat Groundhogs Live Happily Together
In Lithopolis Ohio a unique family of three baby groundhogs two kittens a spaniel dog and a cat resides at Frank Rothfuss home. The dog and cat bear most duties sharing guardianship and foraging rewards as the cat brings groundhogs to the kittens and the dog is fed as thanks for protection.
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Lithopolis
Ohio
Animal Kingdom
Frank Rothfuss
Sympathy for robin parents sparks county visit note
Sympathy Hugh visits his aunt in the country and notes a robin nest near the house. He tells his aunt he feels sorry for the mother robin and says the male robin never stays home.
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Hugh
Robin
California Fig Syrup Ad Warns Against Imitations
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a remedy for constipation in babies and children. It urges mothers to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with directions on the bottle and warns to say California to avoid imitators.
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California
Might Be Tom Mistress-Who was the man who visited you last night
A dialogue fragment from Der Lustige Sachse in Leipzig features a mistress asking a maid to identify a visitor. The maid names a possible man, Harry, raising a small domestic intrigue. The text reads as a brief, dated stage or dialogue snippet.
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Ma’an
Harry
Sachse
Leipzig
Texas Lady's Life Takes New Turn
Mrs Lanca Clooney, manager of the Telephone Exchange Cafe in San Antonio, credits Nature's Remedy NR Tablets for ending her chronic headaches. Her story echoes claims that NR Tablets ease sour stomach, biliousness, constipation, headaches, indigestion, and rheumatism. price listed as 25 cents a box.
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Lanca Clooney
Telephone Exchange
San Antonio
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