Bogus Insurance Claims Racketeering Poses Public Costs
The executive secretary of the Southwestern Insurance Information Service in Dallas warns that staged accidents fuel a half billion dollar yearly fraud harming the public. He cites fake injuries ranging from chemical burns to severed limbs, revealing schemes by scammers, lawyers, and doctors.
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F. Darby Hammond
Southwestern Insurance Information Service of
Dallas
Hammond
Texas
ABC
Metal fish pole silences TV set in Los Angeles
A Wilshire District resident used a metal fish pole stuck from a third story window to jam the neighbor's television by shorting the antenna. The man says he acts during hot spells to sleep and removes the pole in the morning. The neighbor and a repairman are described as going nuts.
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Los Angeles
Wilshire
Quoting Bible Causes Teen Thief to Drop Purse
In Washington on a Sabbath incident a teenage thief snatched a purse from Mrs. Pearl Singletary. She began reciting Psalm 23 and the thief dropped the purse and fled. The item highlights a moment where scripture calmed a thief through self control.
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Washington
Pearl Singletary
Lipstick Rules and Costs Drive Women's Beauty Habits
A nationwide beauty survey finds lipstick the top cosmetic for women 16 and older with 90 percent using it and U S spending about 70 million dollars yearly. Women favor dark after five shades and seek long lasting easy to apply colors with pleasing taste and scent.
Thank You Note From Westport Speed Charge Case
A Bronxville woman thanked state police for arresting her son on a speed charge saying the court summons was worth more than preaching. The item also mentions a desert flight joke with an Englishman Irishman and American.
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Westport
Conn
Bronxville, N. Y
Desert island humor in married life gag
Witty exchange notes domestic strife and survival punch line about an insurance policy and provisions to endure until rescue. The quip contrasts a busy husband earning money with the wife’s complaint about neglected basics.
Churches in Newton Texas Denominational Listings
Local church directory lists several congregations with pastors Sunday School times and worship schedules including First Presbyterian Assembly of God First Baptist Newton Cole First Methodist Cross Roads Presbyterian Bethel Baptist Pilot Grove Church of Christ details for services and meetings across the week.
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First Presbyterian Church
North Texas
Lee H. Smith
Floyd Bassett
First Baptist Church
Newton Cole
Training Union
Cross Roads
Pilot Grove Church
Son eats traffic ticket case in Cedar City
In Cedar City Utah Justice David A. Smith fined Lloyd Mumford 5 dollars after Mumford claimed his baby son ate the ticket. A touring Soviet bureaucrat and a Polish peasant joked about the new potato plan with a parable about heaven and potatoes.
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Cedar City
Utah
Justice of the Peace
David A. Smith
Lloyd Mumford
Smith
POLISHED EVERY THURSDAY POSTED IN TEXAS POST OFFICE
The notice lists subscription rates for Grayson and Fannin Counties at 82.00 and outside those counties at 2.50 with a foreign rate of 5.00 for soldiers excluded. It also states correction policy for any erroneous reflections upon individuals or firms on prompt notification to the publisher.
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Whitewright
Texas
Grayson
Fannin
Man, 71, in Need of Money Eats Way to Fortune
In Tudela Spain Francisco Marco a 71 year old peanut vendor won 2 by eating 10 pounds of alfalfa and says it was nothing He earned 8 40 in seven days drinking 10 quarts of water eating 30 dozen peaches and more grass than a donkey Could the world s strongest appetite help his finances Doctors note exercises for crossed eyes.
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Tudela
Spain
Francisco Marco
Marco
Francisco
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the Whitewright Sun
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Scott Tissue
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