Lowbrow Crime Thing Of Past
Chicago reports a shift from flashy criminal styles to well dressed, prosperous looking offenders. Police note disguises and fake references, with criminals posing as businessmen or professionals. Alderman Titus Wlaffa and ten others indicted by a federal grand jury for running a five million dollar illicit liquor operation through a company deemed legitimate by investigators.
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Chicago
G. L Hostetter
Employers’ Association of Chicago
MW Hostetter
Ben
Dun
Brad Street
Titus Wlaffa
Haffa
Crook Tipped to Detectives and Hidden Graft
Detectives learn of a criminal who operates by paying henchmen to perform dirty work at a fixed rate. The offender's aim is to disguise graft, terrorism and blackmail as his means of living without work. He grows increasingly difficult to catch.
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Hostetter
Arctic region lures women for polar quest voyage
A party of wealthy English women led by John C Bee Mason plans a June departure from England to Spitzbergen and the Arctic to hunt polar bears seals and walruses this summer. The voyage will be woman led with Bee Mason and crew aboard a comfortable vessel under a captain while a woman doctor and radio are aboard for safety and guidance.
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London
Africa
Atlantic
Arctic
John C Bee Mason
Sir Linast Shackleton
England
Spitzbergen
Artic
Bee Mason
International News Service
Dortor
Society bookies grow in British racecourses and shops
London May 2 society bookmakers gain prominence at English race meetings with many fashionable men and women joining betting as a side income. Sir Joseph Tichborne joins as a representative for a London firm, taking commissions on bets while appearing as a regular spectator. Women in fashion increasingly engage in shopkeeping and betting, with titled bookmakers poised to attract a large social following.
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London
England
Joseph Tichborne
Jaondon
Takioga
Burglar Earnings Compared to Crime Misery Warns Sir Walter Greaves
In Manchester, Sir Walter Greaves told City Sessions that criminals earn less than fourteen shillings and sixpence weekly. He urged a housebreaker not to expect wealth, stating there is only misery in crime.
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London
Sir Walter Greaves
Manchester
Sir Walter
Marriage in South African tribes ends with ant torment
On wedding day a groom’s hands are bound in a bag of fire ants to test endurance. Itne endures the pain without flinching, is declared fit for matrimony, and the marriage proceeds amid the festival.
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Itne
Unpacked Porch Frocks Arrive in Misses Sizes 14 to 20
If you enjoy cheerful prints and unusual trimming effects you will be thrilled by an almost endless variety of sparkling new porch frocks just unpacked and being stocked. Exceptional value promises astonishment. See them in our window.
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DRY Cleaners
Fauver & Robson
Broad St
Vicks
Logan Gas CO
Second Street
Singer
Singer Store
Middle Ave
ELGIN
Paris
Harry S. Burr Jeweler
Elyria, Ohio
Arctic Region
Society
Britain
Scholl
Scholls
Broad Street
S Point
Virginia Dare
Sand’s Point
Elyria
Lewis
Lewis’ Se
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