Adoptions Drama in New York as Browning Faces Probe
Edward Browning seeks to end the modern Cinderella tale by returning Dorothy Sunshine and Mary Spas to their families. District Attorney Newcomb and officials question Browning over motives while Mary pleads to go home. Mary’s father urges her return as Browning and Mary remain under scrutiny.
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New York
NW. Y
Edward W. Browning
Capcamened
Mary Louise Spas
Browning
Mary
Coler
William St. John
Rye
N. Y
Dor- Sunshine Browning
Dorothy
Cinderella
Mr. Browning
Crystal Lake
Cindérella
Mice
Cee Mary
Said
Gois Browning
Henry Minott
United State
Edward Browning
Mary Spas
Dorothy Sunshine
Richard 8. Newcomb
Queens County
John Spas
Mrs. Spas
John
Newcomb
United Press
Adibiains
Kew Gardens
Wes Dia
Gala
Edward West Browning
Insurance Fraud Plot Blown Up in Martinez Case
In Martinez on August 8 an apparent plan to murder a victim and fake insurance fraud unraveled as authorities pursued leads. Charles Boharts, a wandering laborer and missionary, was sought on a murder warrant. Mrs Schwartz still claims the corpse as her husband Cecil Barker, an undertaker from Placerville, who had employed Barbe. Berkeley criminologist B O Heinrich says the killer altered the body to resemble the victim. Clues about Barbe’s whereabouts remain unfounded.
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Martinez
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A.P
Th Pacific Cell Company
Charles
Supp
Insu
Schwartz
Tore
Indians Called Original Chemists
James A. Branagan of Philadelphia told American Chemical Society listeners that Native Americans were the continent’s first chemists. He described arrowhead and tool making from bone, ash, and water, and claimed indigenous methods for tanning, glue from fish scales, waterproof canoes, pitch seams, pottery clay, and dyeing.
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Los Angeles
James A. Branagan
Philadelphia
American Chemical Society
Branagan
Philadelphian
Von Hindenburgs Fine Wine Supply
In Coblenz Germany Aug 7 President von Hindenburg has a wine cellar stocked to allow sampling a different brand each day for weeks without repetition. The United Wine Growers and Dealers of Germany sent samples of all German wines to show cultivation and native quality. Given his moderate tastes the supply may last many months.
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Coblenz
Germany
A.P
von Hindenburg
United Wine Growers and Dealers of
French Prepare Final Offensive Against Riffians
Fez Morocco Aug 8 The French flying columns push operations along the front preparing a decisive strike against Abd el Krim’s Riffians. The Quétzan area NW of Fez reports over 300 enemy killed. In the east Rowe tribesmen still back Abd el Krim while Trouts abandon him.
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Fez
French Morocco
Abd-Hl-Krim
Quétzan
Abd-El-Krim
Factions Clash Reported in Canton Amid Ongoing Strife
Reports from Canton describe continued fighting between rival factions with gunfire heard on two successive nights. Authorities allegedly block servants from returning to work with foreigners.
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Canton
A.P
No Inquiry Into Negro Lynching Is Contemplated
Excerpt from a Missouri report states Clay county officials will not open an inquest into the lynching of Walter Mitchell a Black man hanged after a jail escape during an alleged assault. Coroner H W Hill signed the death certificate listing strangulation. Prosecutor Ray Cummins called the act crude and cited no known mob leaders.
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Excor Springs
Clay County
Walter Mitchell
Negro
Leonard Utt
Ott
H. W. Hill
Ray Cummins
Cummins
President of Cole Motor Co. Is Dead
J J Cole president and general manager of the Cole Motor Car Company died at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis. A mob lynching near Excelsior Springs Missouri led to the hanging of a man described as a resident native of Meridian Mississippi. Passengers on a train witnessed the scene as the mob swarmed the tracks and the body was removed to an undertaker.
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Cole Motor CO
Indianapolis
Ind
J.J. Cole
The
Cole Motor Car Company
Claypool
Craven
Meridian
Miss
Mitchell
Belsiar Springs
Kansas City
Excelsior Springs
Excelsior Springs Junction
Race Against Death Not Run in Vain
Four year old Carmel Petry Jr of Hanley West Virginia survived after surgeons in Cincinnati removed a bean from his left lung. The child had inhaled the object choking on it until Charleston doctors sent him by car the 238 miles to Cincinnati for treatment. He is expected to recover.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Carmel Petry, Jr
Hanley
West Va
Charleston
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