Ghost House 160 Rooms Stir With Odd Goings On
SAN JOSE Calif Custodian John R Brown and his wife recount 13 years in the Winchester ghost house noting unseen presences at night doors unlatch themselves and a hall with four fireplaces wife says voices are heard in Winchesters old bedroom The house built for 36 years cost about 3 million dollars and remains an architectural oddity with hundreds of doors and stairways and rooms many altered by unseen hands.
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San Jose
Calif
John R. Brown
Sarah Pardee Winchester
Winchester
Margaret Marriot
Senator Sheppard Predicts Return of Prohibition
Washington Senator Sheppard of Texas, author of the eighteenth amendment, predicts national prohibition will return faster than expected because drunken driving causes highway deaths. The 37-year veteran believes repeal was an interlude and cites enforcement as strong, blaming special interests for repeal to shift tax burden from the rich.
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Washington
Sheppard
Texas
America
Congress
House
Senate
Mayor Instructs City to Follow Directions
The mayor tasks city officials with enforcing a bundle of instructions. An office boy collects the directives in a basket and ensures they are carried out.
Paris Caller Quips on Husbands Faith Shift
In a witty exchange Mrs. Radionut notes her husband’s sudden zeal, joking that last Sunday he adopted a pocketful of religious sources from Ft. Worth Winnipeg Boston and San Francisco, highlighting his now violent religiosity in a satirical mode.
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Ft. Worth
Winnipeg
Boston
San Francisco
Wallace to wield big stick to move egg prices
Secretary Wallace announced the federal government will enter the egg buying business with about 100 million dollars of congress authorized funds. The move uses 30 percent of agricultural receipts to shift surplus eggs to relief recipients and stabilize farm and retail prices amid a recent price drop.
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Washington
Wallace
Congress
Department
Agriculture Department
30YearOld Mother Held in Mail Order Marriage Swindle
Batesville Arkansas postal authorities charged Mrs Lyle Polly Jones 30 year old mother with defrauding more than 100 men of 15 to 30 dollars each by posing as a mail bride The case notes she wrote many letters promising marriage and asked for money for clothes transportation and moving to a new home She and her husband were arraigned on federal charges and held on bond with a related grand jury review pending in Little Rock Authorities say she used matrimonial bureaus to obtain lists of men and then vanished after soliciting funds for travel and relocation
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Batesville
Ark
Lyle
Polly) Jones
Postoffice
William White
Jones
White
Federal Grand Jury
Little Rock
Heber Springs
Shiloh
Framed Dialogue Excerpt on Income for Daughter
A courtroom style exchange centers on financing a daughter's future. A speaker questions the sufficiency of a five thousand yearly income and the private funds already counted, highlighting financial arrangements and calculations. The brief dialogue underscores conditional support and perceived adequacy of income.
New Light Rays to Kill Germs in Air Plan Trials
Harvard School of Public Health announces ultra violet germ killing floodlights to purify air in hospital rooms and test in three Eastern cities. Aimed at reducing nose and throat infections, the setup creates a barrier of rays across corridors. A railroad car test with 70 passengers in 5000 cubic feet checks infection risk. Rays are unsafe for humans. devices avoid direct exposure.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard School of Public Health
William F
M. W. Wells
Public Health School
Sleep machine from Northwestern scientist aims to lure nation to rest
Evanston scientist John J. B. Morgan unveils a compact sleep inducing device that broadcasts a monotone drone at twenty cycles per minute. The tone allegedly relaxes listeners and can induce sleep in most people though some find it irritating. Morgan envisions radio stations broadcasting similar notes at bedtime to help the public sleep.
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Evanston, Ill
Science
John J. B. Morgan
Northwestern Psychology
Morgan
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