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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1927
Page
6
A sweeping review outlines midwest floods and tornadoes, Mexican bandit atrocities, Kuomintang power shifts in China, Japanese financial turmoil, and caravan of political intrigues. It covers disasters, international conflict, and political maneuvering shaping the era.
Five armed youths held up the First National Bank in Pampa Texas forcing merchant J M Durfee to drop a sack containing about 1160 dollars asking if it was insured. Durfee refused and the bandits took the money totaling around 25000 dollars after locking seven employees and many customers in the vault.
Hospital records from Shanghai in 1925 reveal methods of suicide among residents. Women outnumber men almost three to one, with engagement ring and earrings swallowed after rejection noted, and opium remaining the most common method. Ground glass copper and mercury also caused fatalities, while throat cutting and drowning were rarer.
Scheftal Shmuleviteh Khan dros of Memphis spent 13 years seeking his wife and their son Joseph who were separated during war and famine. A 1925 letter rekindled hope but deportation and drift delayed a reunion until an immigration service link enabled funds and plans for their voyage to the United States.
Dimetrius Sigelakis, 27, a Greek sailor from Fernandino Florida, aims to circumnavigate the world alone in a 22 foot sailboat. He recalls 18 days at sea with minimal drinking water in 1924 and now prepares a 4,491 mile route from Miami to Gibraltar expected to take 100 to 150 days after reaching Fernandino from New York in 22 days.
Miss Maggie Roeder, sixty, of Bellaire Ohio, died of starvation in a room here. Over $300 was discovered hidden under a rug after the room was cleaned, according to rooming-house proprietress Mrs Delia Monahan who told police.
Paul Dornak of Campo, Texas, chased a runaway mule and was kicked in the eye by a piece of wood. The injury blinded his right eye and he was rushed to a hospital, where doctors could not save it.
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