Ten-Cent Dance Costs $27,552 in Courtroom Ruckus
In San Francisco taxi dancer Clara Hanks Nelson faced grand theft charges after C Harold Morehouse, a married capitalist, paid for dozens of dances and gifts. He claimed three checks totaling 27 552 were stolen from him. she was later acquitted on retrial amid courtroom chaos and cheers.
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San Francisco
C. Harold Morehouse
Morehouse
Clara Hanks Nelson
Jetty
Oakland
Nelson
Mr. Morehouse
Paul
Modesto
Nelgon
Monte Cheney
Salt Lake City
Santa Claus
Bovine in Oregon Sets Two New World Records
Independence Oregon reports Golden Chief's Lady May a pure bred Jersey cow owned by Lloyd A Hulburt set two 805 day world records. It produced 19922 pounds of milk and 893.89 pounds of butter fat surpassing 805 day records held by Tormentors Saucy Meg of Iowa and Poets Mabel Mowat of Oregon.
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Saucy
E. M. Sherman
Charles City
Iowa
Mabel Mowat
Karl Hanneman
Portland
Ore
Hair in Maine Tree Linked to Old Toothache Legend
In Augusta and Leeds Maine newspaper notes reveal a 25 year old tale about a tree hole filled with hair and nail clippings. Legend says wrapping fingernail and toenail clippings in hair and boring a tree hole and plugging it can cure toothache, once told as a superstition by Greenwood Faught’s kin.
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Maine
Augusta
Harold Philoon
Leeds
William B. Haskell
Quaker Hill
Sidney
Automatic Safety Device Demonstrated for Trains
French railway authorities consider an automatic device that halts trains after passing a danger signal. George Kofler of Austria demonstrated the invention in Paris before French American and South American traffic experts. The device attaches to the engine and whistles the engineer when the first danger signal is passed. if the engineer fails to act the train is automatically stopped.
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Paris
George Kofler
Austria
Prince Tokugawa Visits United States Dinner Hosted by Hoover
Prince Tokugawa of Japan, head of the house of peers and president of the Japanese Red Cross, is in the United States. He met with President Hoover and Mrs. Hoover and with Judge John Barton Payne, president of the American Red Cross.
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Prince Tokugawa
House of Peers
United States
Hoover
Japanese Red Cross
John Barton Payne
American Red Cross
Amicable slot machine man slain amid Jersey war
N J police report Milburn resident Joseph Hamley, a 220 pound slot machine operator, was killed amid the Jersey slot machine war. He allegedly knew who shot Jack Diamond in New York on October 12 and who abducted Abe Figura on October 11.
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Milburn
N. J
Joseph Hamley
Jack
Legs
Diamond
Monticello
New York
Hamley
Jersey
Irving Wexler
Waxie Gordon
Abe Figaro
Police
Hudson
Bergen
Passaic
Figura
Wexler’s
Harrison
Paterson
New Jersey
Thousands of Lepra Bacilli To Be Studied For Secrets
Washington reports a mass program to grow leprosy germs to reveal disease secrets. The National Tuberculosis Association and NIH scientists will expand leprabacilli culture at Yale Sterling Chemical Lab to compare with tubercle bacilli, tracing shared cellular behavior and seeking new cures.
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Washington
F National Tuberculosis Association
Wiliam Charles White
National Institute of Health of
Ache Ece States Public Health Services
Leonard
Sterling Chemical Laboratory
Yale University
Famous Eagle Family of Ohio Loses Member
Lorain Ohio reports the famous Vermillion eagles are reduced by one. The body of a majestic bird not in captivity was found in a wood nearby by a farmer. Dr Francis E L Herrick Western Reserve University Cleveland called the act a tragedy.
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Lorain
Ohio
Vermillion
Francis EL. Herrick
Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Baby Swallows Fish After Medical Procedure
Doctors in a New Orleans hospital faced a mystery when eighteen month old Floyd Foght was admitted dying with no obvious ailment. A physician used forceps to extract a whole fish from the child’s throat, and the infant rapidly recovered.
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Floyd Foght
English Seaplanes Reach Record Speeds for Royal Air Force
London reports new details on two large sea going aircraft for marine use at Felixstowe. The Valetta tops about 140 mph and carries over ten tons including structure. The Blackburn Sydney, a metal airliner type flying boat, weighs nine tons and cruises near 100 mph with four to eight hour endurance.
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London
Royal Air Force Experimental Base
Felixtowe
Medway
Rochester
Blackburn
Blacksmith Tom Preen Leaves 23 Children to City
In Carshalton Surrey England the late blacksmith Tom Preen left his 23 children to the local corporation city hall in his will. He notes with sorrow that the twenty fourth child died in a motor accident years ago.
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City Carshalton
Surrey
England
Tom Preen
City Hall
Bloody Auburn Prison Changes After Deadly Revolt
Auburn's century old prison has undergone major interior and security overhauls after last year’s violent riot. New doors and closed open stairwell reduce access. ringleaders Ernest Pascal and Steve Pawlak are gone or confined. Walls repainted, discipline tightened, some inmates moved to Clinton and other state institutions.
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Auburn
Josi
Clinton Prison
Dannemera
George Durnford
Ernest Pascvl
Steve Pawlak
Swift justice follows a solitary confinement penalty
The report reflects on a harsh solitary confinement sentence. It discusses the psychological and legal implications of isolating a prisoner as the central consequence of conviction and punishment.
Work on Giant Airship Is Progressing Rapidly
Akron Ohio reports rapid progress on the dirigible ZES-4 the Akron. The airship will be the largest in the world and is slated for launch in June 1981. Construction reaches framework completion by January and follows modern safe dirigible design rather than the Graf Zeppelin style.
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Akron
Ohio
Shoots Ravoit in Tree Monticello N Y
Kenneth Somer ponders rabbits as climbers while Faith and friends watch a large squirrel in a Monticello tree. He takes aim and shoots, the creature dropping as onlookers react with surprise.
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Monticello
N. Y
Kenneth Someron
Faith
Berek
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