Dice Box Kid Killed in Illinois Abduction Case
In Micopolis Illinois on August 20 AP reports a notorious criminal known as the Dice Box Kid, Percy M. Fitzgerald, 70, a pipe fitter, was killed when his car was cut in two. Fitzgerald, once jailed for abducting banker August Luer, had previously received a life sentence in 1933 after Luer was held five days in an underground cell for a $100000 ransom.
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Micopolis
Ill
Collinsville
Percy M. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Borden Chem
Hliopolis Na Baatecht Team
Maucuau WeIguEse
St. Louis
August Luer
Luer
Beatles Nomination Shocks Teens At Cow Palace
Inside the Cow Palace during a Republican convention event a capacity crowd of over 17,000 watched the Beatles. Sheriff Whitmore called it the biggest scene since major political moments as teenage girls, mainly 12 to 18, remained enraptured for over an hour before the band unexpectedly appeared.
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San Francisco
Cow Palace
Britain
North America
Earl Whitmore
San ‘Mateo County
Eisen
Khrushchev
Whitmore
White House Hootenanny for Congress Opens Outdoor Salute
President Johnson hosted a political hootenanny on the White House South Lawn for several hundred lawmakers and officials in a 13-number program labeled a Salute to Congress. The Life Magazine produced spectacle featured campaign songs from Tippecanoe to I Like Ike, with narration by Dicker son Cronkite and Smith. Audience injuries occurred as shrieking girls overflowed chairs and a boy suffered a shoulder dislocation while the Marine Band provided music. Promoter Paul Catalina cited a gate around 90 000 dollars.
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Cabell Phillips
New York Times
Washington
Johnson
Congress
White House
Tippecanoe
Tyler
Ike
Life Magazine
Bill McDonald
Lure
Millard Fillmore
Madison Avenue
Abe Lincoln
Bill McKinley
Coolidge
Nancy Dickerson
National Broadcasting Company
Walter Cronkite
Columbia Broadcasting System
Howard K. Smith
American Broadcasting Company
Brothers Four
Back Porch
Bitter End
The
United States Marine Band
Las Vegas
Nev
Paul Catalina
Teachers Union picks Charles Cogan as president
The American Federation of Teachers elected Charles Cogan of New York City as president at its 48th annual convention in Chicago. He succeeds Carl J. Megel of Chicago.
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Teachers Union
Chicago
The
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
Charles Cogan
New York City
Carl J. Megel
Mike Powenski Dies in Benton at 43
Mike Powenski 43 a Benton resident and Polish National Alliance president died Tuesday in Franklin Hospital after a stroke. He lived in Benton 45 years and was born in Poland on September 26, 1890. He married Helen Shibavitch in Benton in 1921. she died in 1958. He leaves two daughters and several sons, along with 13 grandchildren. Funeral at St Joseph Church Benton with burial in the Benton A to Sonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery. Rosary tonight at Pouson-Free man Funeral Home.
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Mike Powenski
Benton
Polish Alliance
Franklin Hospital
Polish National Alliance
Poland
Helen Shibavitch
Ann Mario
Herrin
Rose Davison
Bu Quoin
Louis
Leo
Marion
Stanley
John
Chicago
Mike, Jr
Denver City
Texas
St. Joseph's Church
Stanly Klychki
Benton Atasonic
Odd Fellows
Pouson-Freeman Funeral Home
James E. Wiggs
Lick Creek
James Edward Wiggs
Wiggs
Ebenezer Hall Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Union County
Raleigh
Sarah Lingle Wiggs
Hattie Emery
Chloe Jones
Cypress
Lois Pulliam
Zella Roberts
Ellen Roberts
Trimble
Tenn
Viola Barker
Clyde
St. Louis
Claude
Lick Greek
Floyd
Virgil
Vertis
Jonesboro
Ott
Goreville
T. A. Wiggs
Anna
Nelli Stokes
Ebenezer Hat
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Roy Shelton
Vernon Murphy
Grant Whitesides
Church
Norris and Son
Itch Relief Ad Promises Quick Healing in 13 Minutes
An advertisement touts fast relief for itch and eczema saying a single day treatment clears insect bites and rashes. It names Hewitt Drug in Carbondale, Karr Drug in Hart, and Hagler's Drug in Murphysboro as sellers.
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Hewitt Drug
Carbondale
KARR
Hart
Hagler's Drug
Murpeysboro
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Dice Box
Hootenanny Lands Congress
Chester
Russell Q. Rager
Bradenton
Fla
William D Vietegge
Rt. 3
Chester Bypass
Quada.wie River
Coin Operated
Murphysboro
Damaica
Fic Value Ironing Board
P. N. Hirsch
PRIM
Oxfords
Chenille
Dacron
Frigidatre
Duran
Illinois
First Church OF the Nazarene
St. Poplar St
Prof
Paul Qualls
Orlando, Florida
Robert
Fortner
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