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Seeing the Monkey
We saw a German yesterday who was complaining very bitterly of having lost his watch by means of that stale old trick known as the "box game." It appears that…
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Dramatic Scene Marks First Day Of Murder Trial
TOMBSTONE. Ariz, Aug. 16. The first day of the trial of James Haverty, charged with murdering his brother, Richard, on April 21, came to a sensational close this evening when Mrs. Richard Haverty rushed at the man accused of slaying her husband, vigorously slapped his face, and then collapsed in the arms of friends. The incident occurred as Haverty was leaving the court room.
James Haverty is charged, with having shot his brother following an exchange of words near Ramsey Canyon about 40 miles east of here. The Haverty brothers were tor many years well known cattlemen in south eastern Arizona.
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Entertainment for Children at Seashore Home
Last Saturday two hundred and fifty crippled children of the Seashore Home listened with delight to the songs sung by Miss Louise Mack, of the Beaux Arts Cafe. The choruses of “Old Fashioned Girl” and “Three O’clock in the Morning” were favorites selected by the kiddies. Mrs. Rennie Cormack, of New York, played delightfully on the piano, Mira. Cormack also played and sang, as did Mr. F. Collis Wildman. Miss Suzanne Sackett made the arrangements.
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Something New Under the Sun
Mr. Prince, of New York, has invented a "Fountain Pen" which bids fair to prove of great utility inasmuch as one can write with it a quire of paper without…
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Reformatory Life Has Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley
Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls’ School.
REFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for thrills in Opal Isley, 17.
The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert W. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground.
The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her as a tool.
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Rain and Hail
SOME DAMAGE IN LAKE COUNTY CORNFIELDS BY LAST EVENING'S STORM REPORTED. A storm came upon this vicinity about 7 o'clock last evening and there were several heavy showers before the…
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Lighthouses Illuminated by Electricity
Prof. Faraday, of London, in the Philosophical Magazine for April, expresses a favorable opinion of the electric spark for light house purposes, and states that the experiment, last winter, in…
Kirkland Ferry Robbed
Purser Office is Looted of $500 in Fares
Sneak Thieves Enter Place as Boat Docks Across Lake
Door is Broken Open
Purser Matson Had Gone Out to Collect Tickets
Thieves broke into the office of Purser M. Matson on the ferryboat Lincoln Monday morning, as the boat was docked at the Kirkland end on the 7:45 run, and escaped with $500.
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Street Rowdyism
Mr. Editor:—Will you inform me through your columns, whether that part of the city bounded by Hudson, Varick, Charlton and King streets have been by any act of the city…
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His Gold Stars Will Be Worn on Thursday
The two gold stars that Charles W. Albro, the third oldest carrier In point of service In the Providence post office, was to receive today, will not ornament his uniform…