One Arm Man From Brentwood Sentenced for Car Theft
Frederick Charles Elton aged twenty six of Brentwood England was jailed for one year at hard labor after stealing two motor cars breaking into a house and stealing a revolver possessing the revolver possessing the second car driving without a license and related acts. The case raises debate on licensing for disabled drivers and mental fitness checks in England.
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Pennsylvania Man Owns Rare Edison Product
Sunbury educator Professor Harry L Keefer owns one of six original Edison electric light globes. The relic arrived via Edison Pioneer secretary F A Wardlow. Keefer organized a local Edison Science club and highlights Sunbury’s 1882 1883 electric plant origins and other pioneer events with Edison.
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Harry L. Keefer
Sunbury High School
Thomas A. Edison
Keefer
F. A. Wardlow
Edison Pioneers
Edison
Dearborn
Mich
Woman Barber Opens Men Only Shop Says Men Not Cantankerous
Mrs Zulu Arnold, former beauty shop attendant, plans a barber shop for men here. She claims men are more generous than women less vain and not so cantankerous and offers to prove she can give as good a shave and haircut as any man.
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Providence
Zulu Arnold
Arnold
Scientists Study Rare Reptile Collection in San Francisco
Savants at the California Academy of Sciences study a rare South American reptile collection now in San Francisco. The load includes a ten foot boa constrictor and forty eight baby boas, part of a new family of reptiles.
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San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
New York Lights Triplex Suite Atop City Hotel
An advertisement touts a 15-room triplex occupying the 30th to 32nd floors of New York's new apartment hotel with a $45,000 annual rental. The piece also clips a column of scattered anecdotes on critics, crafts awards in building, Capone in Miami, a polo scar origin tale, and an expensive golf bet linked to a horse at 30 to 1.
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Precautions Guard Brokers Loans Data On Market Activity
Washington reports detail how the Federal Reserve safeguards the weekly brokers loans figures seen as a key barometer of stock activity. A single official privately compiles at 4 pm Thursday, seals and mails the data to Governor Roy A. Young, ensuring no leaks.
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Rattler Found in Canal Street Subway Station
Patrolman Charles A. Kennedy discovered a live rattlesnake in the Canal Street station of the Lexington Avenue subway. The reptile had eight rattles and measured about five and a half feet in length.
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New York
Charles A. Kennedy
Canal Street
Lexington Avenue Subway
Woman Hunter, Left Behind, Shoots Deer
In Missoula Montana Mrs Goldie Burch, deemed a mere woman, stayed with the car while men hunted. A rifle shot rang out and she rushed back to find a 250 pound buck deer shot from the auto, the suspense turning to surprise.
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Missoula Mont
Goldie Burch
Stole 300000 Chickens Now Protects Farmers
Robert F. Stephens, who admits to stealing 300000 chickens across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa over eighteen months, serves as a reformer exposing fake protection agencies. He describes leading a gang in fast cars robbing 10000 to 15000 roosts, was jailed, and now aims to cut farm theft losses by half through published memoirs and methods to deter thieves.
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New York
Robert F. Stephens
Nebraska
Iowa
Stephens
New Yorker Pays 25 For Conscience Fund Donation
John Brown of New York sent 25 to the Treasury conscience fund. He purchased a money order and made it payable to Andrew W. Mellon. The donation was announced as received to settle accounts with the government.
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Washington
John Brown
New York
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Andrew W. Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Sargent Former Cabinet Member Collects Clocks
Ludlow Vermont former Attorney General John G. Sergent amasses a nationally known collection of antique clocks at his home. He explains that all his timepieces, including the oldest, remain in running order and well cared for, delighting visitors and clock connoisseurs alike.
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Ludlow
John G. Sargent
Hardest Work Yet Asked of Hired Men
A Pittsburg Press cartoon dialogue asks which labor is hardest with one reply saying the hardest is avoiding work. An ad promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claiming to restore regularity without griping for 25 cents a box at 872 Pearl St, N. Advocate ad copy.
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Gale
Pittsburgh Press
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Pearl St
Old Relationship Repainted Sparks Whispered Question
A light exchange hints at past flames with a witty comeback about a painted over old girlfriend. The banter suggests lingering familiarity and playful jealousy in a casual encounter.
Bobby Jones Visits Indian Phrenologist in Monterey
After Pebble Beach he visits Monterey studio with a friend. The phrenologist examines his head and claims a large bump at the base of the occipital bone signals deep affection for children. Jones retorts a caddie’s missed fare explains the bump.
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Bobby Jones
Pebble Beach
Monterey
Bobby
Los Angeles Times
Viscountess Astor Complains of New York Pace
The Viscountess Astor told a New York reporter that New York is modern and up to date but hard on the nerves. In a 40 story New York hotel a Midwestern man asked for the place to be brought down to the minute, joking that the hotel furnishes sleeping powders with every bedroom.
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London
New York
Middle West
Detroit Free Press
Lappish Folklore Preserved By Thurri Writer
Johann Thurri preserves Lappish language and folklore through his writings in a region where Lapps inhabit Arctic Norway Sweden and Finland. Arnold Lapp notes Thurri at seventy summers has brought the tongue to writing for the first time.
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Arctic
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Johann Thurri
Arnold Lapp
Thurri
Slope Arkansas Seeks World’s Largest Watermelons Title
The town of Slope Arkansas filed with the federal firm board in Washington to claim recognition as the home of the world’s largest watermelons. A 194 pound melon was shown as proof and the region ships thousands of melons. This year about 500 melons over 10 pounds were shipped to consumers.
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Washington
Slope
Ark
Indianapolis News
Ap open mind may be open at both ends
A compact reflection suggests openness can apply in multiple directions. It implies that progress depends on flexible thinking.
When the heart dares to speak it needs no preparation
A brief reflective line by the writer Lessing about authentic expression. The quote emphasizes spontaneous honesty over calculated rhetoric. No additional context or events are provided.
Grapefruit Seeds Yield Oil for Soap Making
Seeds from large grapefruit factories, once waste, now show oil potential for soap making. You meet people who don’t care if you like them. so you don’t. Hoxie’s Croup Remedy claims no opium or nausea, sold by Kells Co Newburgh NY, Ada.
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Kells Co
Newburgh, N. Y
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Ada
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