New Bag Murders Signal Multi Gang Warfare in Gotham
An epidemic of bag murders shocks New York as eight killings suggest up to four gangs involved. Victims are bound in burlap sacks and dumped in cars or on roadsides. techniques include a strangling noose formed as victims awaken. Notable victim Gerardo Scarpato, Brooklyn racketeer, tied to Vendetta linked to Joe the Boss Masseria.
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New York
Uptown
Manhattan
Gerardo Scarpato
Brooklyn
Joe
Masseria
Unione Siciliane
al Capone
Scarpato
Windsor
A. C
Pittsburgh
Lobsters sped to protect young lives at Connecticut hatcheries
Noank Connecticut hatcheries speed rearing of baby lobsters to save lives. Baby lobsters are fed liver every two hours, halving the infancy period during which they float and face predation. As shells grow, the lobsters sink to the seabed.
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Noank
Conn
Connecticut
Britain’s Heaviest Boy Claim Highlighted
The disputed title of Great Britain’s heaviest boy centers on Ivan Langley of Norfolk who is sixteen years old and weighs about 420 pounds.
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Great Britain
Ivan’ Langley
Norfolk
German Village Boasts World's Biggest Shoe
Nuernberg hosts a German Shoe exhibition featuring a giant 9 ft 7 in long shoe weighing 550 pounds. Apprentices spent three weeks crafting it under Josef Schratty of Oberstdorf, with another entry from Barthelmes shoe factory weighing 700 pounds.
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Nuernberg
Hans Sachs
Nuerobers
Josef Schratty
Oberstdorf
Venice
Barthelmes Shoe
High Tax Spurs Spanish Tobacco Running Fleets
The article describes tobacco smuggling operations from Malaga toward Tangier and Spanish Morocco. A web of jurisdictions, including Britain, France, and Spain, shapes the routes. Runners load legally purchased tobacco from international or foreign-registered vessels, evade carabineros, and rely on a fleet overseen by the Compania Arrendillaria de Tobacos amid a half day’s coastwise reach.
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Malaga
Spain
Mediterranean
Republic
Gibraltar
Orient
India
Tangier
Morocco
Algeria
Oran
Cartagena
Great Britain
France
Spanish
United States
Majorca
Menorca
Ibiza
Valencia
Barcelona
Carabineros
Compania
Arrendillaria de Tobacos
Michigan Clerk Popular With Victims of Cupid
Rolland J. Weaver of Steuben County on the Michigan Indiana line has become the state’s most popular clerk since a five day waiting law for marriage licenses. Hundreds of couples apply in Michigan then travel to Angola Indiana to wed without delay.
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Coldwater
Mich
Michigan
Rolland J. Weaver
Steuben County
Indiana
Weaver
Angola
Ind
Street Split Bricks and Macadam Pave City Ward Line
Two aldermen Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy and Donald Jones could not agree on resurfacing a street dividing their wards Lockport New York. A center course was adopted with brick on one side and macadam on the other.
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Lockport
N.Y
Donald Jones
Premium Flake Money-Saving Box With Booklet Inside
Grocery shoppers are urged to ask for Premium Flake money saving box. The package includes a booklet packed inside promising savings and tips.
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Scarpate
Italy
America
Coney ‘Island
Britain
Brazil
Bertholdo Klinger
Sao
Grand Central Station
Rio de Janeiro
National Biscuit Company
Uneeda
Procter & Gamble
U.G. Pat
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden, Mass
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