Posse Wounds Man Sought As Officer's Slayer
In Greeley Colorado a gunman sought as the killer of Sergeant Lee Whitman opened fire on pursuing officers at the station refusing to surrender. He was shot in the head and collapsed. the suspect Jack Printz previously from Pueblo County paroled last Saturday after a 1933 theft sentence.
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Greeley
Colo
T Lee Whitman
Gus Anderson
Jack Printz
Colorado Penitentiary
Pueblo County
Nancy Carroll Seeks Divorce in Reno Hotel
Nancy Carroll the motion picture actress traveled to Reno to establish residence for divorce from Thomas Mallory former magazine editor. The article notes her prominence as founder of the St Bridget Order and mentions Swedish roots and historical details about Vadstena. A secondary note describes an onion smelling tree in Central America cited from Washington Post.
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Reno
Nancy Carroll
Thomas Mallory
Central America
Nicaragua
Managua
Washington Post
Poisoner Held in First Degree Murder Case in Indiana
Mrs. Cora Wertz Rendall of South Bend Ind is pictured after arrest on a charge of first degree murder by poison. Authorities also investigated deaths of her third husband Elmer Wertz a brother who died two years ago and a stepson who died in 1932 in relation to the case.
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Harry Rendall
Cora Wertz Rendall
South Bend
Ind
Elmer Wertz
Kiss Get
Kump Dismisses West Virginia Relief Chief
Governor Kump discharges William H. Beeler as state relief administrator for West Virginia and appoints C. L. Allen, director of public works, to run the relief program. He cites lack of response to his letters and calls to federal relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins as the reason.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kump
William H. Beeler
West Virginia
C. L. Allen
Harry L. Hopkins
Trains Stop for Quinine Reflect Early Malaria Warnings
In Chillicothe Ohio early railroad travel paused with conductors calling out "Twenty minutes for quinine" to curb malaria spread. The practice reveals malaria prevalence in the lower Scioto valley and public health measures of the era.
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Chillicothe
Ohio
Scioto Valley
Rosendahl Plane Makes a Landing
Akron officials report Lieut Com Charles Rosendahl and party to a letterless air conference have landed safely at Middletown Pennsylvania airport after arriving from Akron.
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Akron
Ohio
Charles Rosendahl
Middletown
The Lizard Canary Compared to Norwich Breed Fact
The lizard canary is smaller than the Norwich but resembles it in build. It has a shorter neck and smaller head. English breeders say the first lizard canaries were brought by the Hugonots fleeing the continent and likely reached America via the British Isles.
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America
British Isles
Roosevelt Fails To Break Deadlock In Social Security Debates
President Roosevelt’s personal intervention failed to end the congressional stalemate over excluding private pension plans from the social security program. Also includes an odd note about The Abyssinians observing two Sabbaths and a fossil claim of a rhinoceros giant seventeen to eighteen feet tall, with unrelated items from Collier's Weekly.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Pontius Pilate
C. S. Barrows
Providence
R. I
Collier’s Weekly
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