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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1930
Page
6
The article details M. C. Harman of London as ruler of Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. Harman owns about 1.5 square miles and employs 14 residents, with a local coinage the puffin and unique stamps and laws. The island has a church seating about 200, eight bells, and two stained glass windows.
Berlin reports that eleven years after the war about 100000 German soldiers remain missing. An estimated 10000 may still be alive somewhere in Siberia or abroad, with 43251 last heard as French prisoners and 51213 as Russian prisoners. The German Former Prisoners association notes many likely died in hospital or on routes to hospitals.
Wellsburg West Virginia a Gretna Green for elopers in the tri state district posts a 1929 record with 8 860 licenses issued by the bureau. The Saturday after Thanksgiving sees 17 couples secure marriage permits despite a brutal cold day.
The article notes that China contains hundreds of monetary systems with each town or city using its own unit. Traders traveling between villages face many calculations to determine the payment required for goods.
Dorothy M. Davis twenty four received sixty extra days in jail on top of thirty already decreed by Police Judge Hitt. The remark, spoken to the judge, led to the additional punishment as a magistrate held over suspended sentences in two dry cases. The original thirty days followed a gas main tapping conviction.
In Elizabeth New Jersey Beatrice Karris complains to Police Recorder Brown that her husband Stanley has deserted her 13 times but always returns. He recently came back for the 13th time and caused a quarrel. Stanley is held on a $300 bond to stay away from his wife.
Kansas City grocer William J. Embree thwarted a confidence scam involving an Englishman and a partner posing as cloth buyers. A tea slip and a $40 cloth were used to lure Embree into a sale scheme, but he alerted police and kept a small profit from the tea, ending the ruse.
Jacksonville crewman Jack Grant saves Paul Rice after an explosion sinks their motor cruiser. For three days Grant pumps to keep the vessel afloat while sharks circle the hull, until a passing boat finds them and both men are rescued. Rice is seriously injured.
Mrs. Ethel Huseby of 2001 McVicker avenue sued Marshall Huseby a chauffeur for her father’s coal ice and wood company for divorce. He threw a hot stove at her in October 1929. Judge Robert Gentzell ordered $15 weekly alimony and support for their daughter Ethel aged three.
Ira Chapman of Kittery Maine was wiping his glasses with a white handkerchief when a friend, seeing a white flash, fired, injuring both of Chapman's hands. The incident occurred in the Maine woods as a mistaken deer blind sighting led to the shooting.
Dialogue fragment shows Ella declares face value as fortune while Stella advises summoning a creditors meeting. The exchange hints at financial tensions and social maneuvering. No clear人物 or organizations identified.
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