The Oriental Rug Drug Ring Among New York’s Nightlife
A NY dispatch portrays narcotic rugs as fronts for drug dealing among roaming rug hawkers. Sellers use a sign language to indicate morphine or heroin, with deliveries arranged via waiters and drivers. The piece notes Times Square hotel rooms as storage and a decline of Dutch colonial charm in NYC nightlife.
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New York
Paris
Mont
Columbus Circle
Repute
Times Square
New STRENGTH in the Blood and Ghostly City Lights
A fragmented 1931 column blends urban imagery with personal anecdotes. The narrator muses on luminous Chrysler and Grand Central towers, jokes about maître d hotel names, recalls a valet named Pinkie and Hodkinson, notes a laundry mishap, and mentions a sixty year dream of tungsten electroplating. The piece intertwines mood, identity, and industrial progress.
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Chrysler
Empire
Grand Central Building
Park Avenue
Jacques
Henri
Theodor
Gustave
Sam
Ike
Pinkie
Hodkinson
Reward Unpaid for Blonde Gun Girl Case Still
More than a dozen claimants seek the reward for Glenn Dague and Irene Schroeder, executed for the patrolman killing in Pennsylvania. County officials cannot decide who deserves payment while Arizona threatens suit to recover the prize money. Elyrians promoted at Fort Benjamin Harrison C M T C, Jay Simpson and Joseph Smith advance to sergeant status in the provisional regiment. Mrs Keith Miller, Australian aviatrix, sued for divorce in Melbourne as she tours the United States. A Boston laboratory marked the 56th anniversary of the first bell ringing in a physics experiment.
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New Castle
Glenn Dague
Irene Schroeder
Lawrence County
Arizona
Dague
Schroeder
Keith Miller
United States
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Harry Tuthill
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George
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Bo Bongh
Chevrolet
B. Hunt
Michigan
Indianapolis
Indiana
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Citizens’ Military
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Jay Simpon
Joseph Smith
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M. T. C. Provisional Regiment
Aviatrix
Melbourne
Australia
Boston
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