America’s confidence men swindle over ten million dollars
New York reports that the public lost more than $10,000,000 to con men last year amid war drives and charity appeals. Pinkerton notes crooks now target bankers and business leaders, evolving from three card monte to green goods and fake banknotes and highlighting Florida as a hotbed for large scams.
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New York
Red Cross
Bunco
William A. Pinkerton
Pinkerton
America
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio River
Mr. Pinkerton
Tom Brown
Detroit
Brown
Brooklyn Bridge
Chicago
Florida
Crady
Bass Visbus
Airplane Work Fatigue Linked to Mild Anemia in Factory Room
Workers in the dope room of airplane factories show a general trend of mild anemia, not severe enough to be alarming, indicating fatigue and health concerns among the labor force.
Enrollments in U S Boys Working Reserve Reported
R K Bliss Iowa head of the U S Boys Working Reserve releases a study showing about 6000 enrollments this year nearly 4000 expect to return to school, 25 graduates this year with 7 aiming for college, 600 not attending, and many choosing farming or industrial paths.
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AMBS
R. K. Bliss
U.S
United States
United States Marine Corps
Japs Revive Flogging Policy in Korea
Japanese officials in Korea defend ongoing flogging as punishment for independence movement prisoners. They cite prison crowding and claim Koreans sometimes prefer flogging to fines. Reports describe severe injuries from repeated blows and show the flogging instrument used in courts.
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Tokio
Korea
Menlion
Seoul
Associated Presse
Wool dealer from Knoxville nets five thousand
Chester Shire of Knoxville Iowa who holds stock in the Iowa Seed company at Des Moines recently moved back to wool trading. He bought a wool consignment in a neighboring county and sold it within days for five thousand dollars more than his purchase price. He did not need to transfer the shipment to other cars and sold it as is.
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Knoxville
Iowa
Chester Shire
Iowa Seed Company
Des Moines
Shive
Optimistic Thought Sparks Hopeful Outlook
A brief note highlights sunberies of hope aimed at driving away strings of suspense and uncertainty.
Thin Ice at Fox Theatre features Corinne Griffith
The Vitagraph star Corinne Griffith appears in Thin Ice at the Fox Theatre this week. Shannon Fife wrote the suspenseful criminology themed drama where Alice Winton is drawn into a plot by bucket shop promoters and confronts moral danger before a dramatic finale.
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Corinne. Griffith
Vitagraph
FOX Theatre
Shannon Fife
Alice
Robert Burton
Burton
Bucket Shop
Miss Griffith
Henry G. Sell
L. Rogers Lytton
Jack McLean
Walter Miller
Alice Terry
Julalie Jensen
Charles Kent
Tom Mills
Ames Lifts Picture Zone Ordinance In City Council
The Ames city council repealed a controversial film zone that would have restricted theaters to the downtown area between Grand and Duff avenues, excluding the Fourth ward. With the repeal the city holds no current ordinance governing location of picture shows.
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Ames
Fourth Ward
Grand Avenue
Duff Avenue
Main
Fifth Streets
Paddlefish extraordinary catch reported near Knoxville Iowa
In Knoxville Iowa on August 11, Stewart Jarman caught a rare paddlefish from the Des Moines River near Knoxville. The fish, 18 to 20 inches long with a beak-like snout, is described as boneless aside from a small backbone and is noted to be unusually jawed and forked. Previous paddlefish sightings include a 123 pound specimen in Indiana and a Mississippi River range from Louisiana to Minnesota.
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Knoxville
Robert
Earl Akes
Decatur County
West Grand River
Stewart Jarman
Des Moines
Grand River
Jarman
Indiana
Mississippi
Louisiana
Minnesota
Ohio
Great Lakes
Iowan Claims Pershing Birthplace Home in Missouri
Bloomfield Iowa August 11 Charles Curl of Bloomfield says he lived in the General Pershing home at La Clede Missouri as a youth. Curl is the son of Mr and Mrs Curl early Bloomfield settlers. his father is deceased.
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Missouri
Bloomfield
Charles Curl
General Pershing
Bloomfield Post American Legion Grows to 180 Members
In Bloomfield Iowa Aug 11 the American Legion Post No 78 grown to 180 members with all county townships represented. The group plans a baseball team and a 20 member jazz band. Several veterans return from service and two young ladies recently home from Washington are among the members.
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Bloomfield
American Legion of Town
Davis County
Uncle Sam
Washington, D. C
Long Indian Name Lake Renamed In Massachusetts
The piece notes a Lake Chargoo gagozmannchaugagogchebunnygunga maug in Massachusetts renamed Lake Webster. It claims Algonquin roots meaning a large water where blackbirds chatter and mentions this name change. It then briefly describes Warsaw with views from the Praga castle and notes palaces and the cathedral of St. John the Divine dating to 1250.
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Massachusetts
Lake Webster
Warsaw
Praga
Vistula
St. John the Divine
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Maybray Gang
Baers
Shire
the Fox
Ames Lipts
Lowa
Pershing
Brloomfielad Post
Palm Beach
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