TWO BANDITS ROB EXPRESS SAFE ON TRAIN TO CHICAGO
Two armed bandits boarded the Joliet stop before Chicago and robbed the Lincoln Limited express car of cash drafts and bonds, with estimates ranging from 2,000 to over 20,000 dollars. They bound and gagged express messenger Gotthoff and conductor Connery, overpowered dining car staff, then burned negotiable papers as a signal wire was cut five miles from Joliet, delaying the train.
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Chicago
Ewo
Express
Chicago.& Alton
Lincoln
Joliet
A. Gotthoff
Union Station
Dixpress
Altho Stephen’ Healy
Une Ate Sentennes
Gotthoff
Connery
Che ‘Ral
Lowing
Chiithe
Ean
History fragment on Tirunabula publication details
A garbled OCR fragment references one hundred volumes of Tirunabula and a print period around 1455 involving a general of aichipan and Snow DN productions. The readable content is fragmentary and lacks coherent context or clear events.
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Aichipan
Oldest Armenian Church Under Soviet Rule
In Etchmiadzin Armenia the ancient Armenian Apostolic Church endures under communist rule. Catholicos George V 84 preserves faith, writes letters, and upholds rites as looted relics haunt the site. He pleads for support to build a seminary and train priests amid poverty and political pressure.
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Etchmiadzin
Armenia
Ararat
Catholicos
Gregory
Associated Press
George Vu
Altho
Railway Renews Motion to Direct in Carpenter Case
In the damage suit brought by B. Newman as administrator of the J. B. Carpenter estate against Rock Island Railway, the defense renewed its motion for a directed verdict at 11:30 a.m. today. If overruled, arguments to the jury will begin when sessions resume at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Even walnuts are being branded by a branding machine.
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B. Newman
T. B. Carpenter
Rock Island
West High Riflemen Score Near Perfection in Telegraph Match
West High's rifle team fired 500 shots with 492 counted as high scores in the telegraphic match. Nine teammates reportedly scored near perfection while Eastern High School of Washington DC posted 205 in the two-position event. Washington scores await receipt and a meet with Manchester is slated for April 15.
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West High
Iowa City
Washington
Manchester
Homemaker Harriet Wightman returns from 10000 mile motor trip
Mrs. Harriet Wightman of Sycamore street Waterloo returned Tuesday from a 10000 mile motor journey to the west coast with Mr and Mrs Frank Lions now of Los Angeles. The party stopped overnight at Nevada Iowa for repairs and was hauled out of mud in Iowa twice. Grandson Harold Burke accompanied the travelers. They toured California Mexico and Juania and visited friends in Los Angeles before heading home to attend the Royal Neighbors deputies encampment in Oelwein April 14 and 15 where Mrs Wightman presides.
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Harslett Wightman
Sycamore Street
Waterloo
Frank Lions
Los Ageles
Dale Oranger
Charles van Riper
James Burke
Downey
Los Angeles
Nevada
Iowa
Wightman
Harold Burke
California
United States
John Holbrook
OelwWein
Deputies
Pintail Duck Band Record Shows 12-Year Longevity
Washington May 7 The United States biological survey reports a pintail duck tagged in Utah by Dr C Alexander Wetmore of the Smithsonian was cured of disease and released in 1914. It was later shot in California in October 1926 with band No 819 still on the leg, indicating an age of at least 13 years.
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Washington, D.C
United States “Biological Survey
Utah
Alexander Wetmore
The
Smithsonian: Institution
Wetmore
Biological Survey
H. W. Seybert
California
Condor
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Havings
Snow
Dn Productions
Betchmladzin
ST. Gregory Recreing
Rendom Orphanage
Men’s Union
Childre
Balbriggan
Letic Union
Western Outfitter
Sycamore St
American Chemical Society
Harriett Wightman
Central Iowa Power & Light CO
Laws
Raglan
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