Love affair accused man in wife’s death case
Lonnie Jenkins, a former street railway motorman, faced a murder charge after Betty Zimmerman testified he killed his wife to end their relationship. She described a conspiracy, notes, and threats, including attempts to poison and a milk bottle strike. No trial date set.
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Detroit
Lonnie Jenkins
Street
Betty Zimmerman
Jenkins
Miss Zimmerman
Christopher B. Stein
Miwaukee
Stein
Ecorse
Lonnie
Charles Craig
Man Evil Snake Swallows Arm in Brush With Death
A 60 year old amusement resort snake handler in Los Angeles battled a 30 foot python that swallowed his right arm to the elbow. H. W. McGarry freed his arm after a fierce struggle punctuated by lacerations and 22 stitches by a physician. The tale follows a dramatic escape from a lethal constriction and notes on child psychology by W. Lemeke, describing color use and figure clarity in drawings by shy and bold children.
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Los Angeles
H. W. McGarry
McGarry
W. Lemeke
Difference in Waking and Sleeping Thoughts
Dr. Jesse W. Sprowls explains in the Washington Star that waking thoughts are seen as external creations while dreaming thoughts are intimate and centered on the dreamer. In dreams the self is expressed through images and actions, contrasting with waking life where thoughts are abstractions tied to external reality.
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Jesse W. Sprowls
Washington Star
Three Things It Says Cannot Be Recalled
A Los Angeles Times excerpt reports a Mil sionaiies Club meeting in the Verdugo hills where a neighbor cites the proverb that three things cannot be recalled the sped arrow the spoken word and the lost opportunity. The discourse degenerated into a brisk exchange arguing that arrows and words are expendable and that one should hustle to seize new chances.
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Milsionaiies Club of Contentment
Green Verdugo Hills
John Steven McGroarty
Los Angeles Times
Mind Cleaning: Occasional Sorting of Thoughts Suggests Change
A London Daily Express writer urges drastic mental housekeeping. Many cling to outdated beliefs about home and life, resisting change as the world shifts. He compares clearing old notions to discarding attic junk, urging keeps and scrapping as a born again of the mind.
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London Daily Express
Greece Credited With First Pleasure Gardens
The early history of Greece shows no records of garden development and public areas formed the first real pleasure gardens. After Oriental and Egyptian contact, extensive landscape plantings emerged, influenced by Persia and India as Alexander the Great campaigned in 327 B C. The Hindus worshiped many trees after Buddhism began in the fifth century B C.
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Greece
Alexander the Great
Persia
India
Babylonia
Wisconsin seeks US 51 rerouting between Hurley and Mercer
Wisconsin highway department engineers begin a survey along US 51 between Hurley and Mercer funded by 12000 from federal sources to plan necessary relocations for paving. The project hinges on a bond issue proposal on the upcoming election day.
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Hurley
Mercer
Wisconsin Highway Department
Mines and wood trades show October to December shifts
Employment in October and November rose in mines and sawmills with December totals at 200 for sawmills, nine more than November. Woods employment hit 828 in November and 738 in October. PWA labor was 10 in November and 40 in October. John H. Wright 67 Ironwood drag line operator died after two weeks illness. Funeral Saturday with services at home and First Methodist. Born England November 5, 1867. Surviving widow, one daughter, three granddaughters, one grandson, five brothers, three sisters. Wrights in Ironwood, Pennsylvania, and England. He belonged to Knights Templar and Odd Fellows.
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PWA
John H. Wright
Ironwood
Wright
England
Ernest May
Milwaukee
Richard
William
Sam
Pennsylvania
Knights Templar
Masonic Order
Odd Fellows Lodge
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J. J. Novak
The
Wakefield News
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Wakefield, Michigan
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