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Hetor Perry, a pretty little girl, has been twice kidnapped from her home by a man and a woman and carried away in a motor car, both times being returned unharmed. The poltes are mystifled at the actions of the couple.
Mrs. Florence Knapp has taken office as Secretary of Stato in Naw York-perhaps this first of her sox in the United Statou to hold a position of the sort. She administered, the oath to Goverabr Alfred Smith at- Albany, when Smith, for the first time since the days of De Witt Clinton, was inducted into office' as the State's
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SOLDIERS BONUS STAFEL.
The rat package of Hoidiers bonus certificates, involving payments totalling £15,000,000, has ex-Servicemen entitled to the bony Major Clark, chief of the Adjusted Compensation Division of the Veterans' Bureau, and his staff. Work of sending the shipment of the certificates to the 800,000 been sent out from Washington bus is being pushed ahead.
INSANE WOMAN'S DREADFUL DEED.
Enjoying Himself.
MTS EDITH WELLS : MILLIAN WEYES
Mr. Edith Wells, police investigator, known as Edith Beaudreau, took awift action when her 15-year-old daughter, Lillian, same home one night under the influence of liquor, She learned that schoolgirls were being supplied with whiskey at a "sweet shop," she chargos, and arrested Anthony Petitc, the owner, on a charge of violating the Volstead Ast,
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Most men have hobbies, and Luther Burbank, the world's greatest horti- cultural genius, is no exception, Hia hobby is wood turning. When not engaged in creating new products. from the soil, he is at his lathe, turn Ing rolling pins, gevels and bowls,
REMEMBER-ILL EXPECT YOU "TO· TELL ME ALL THAT HAPPENS AT THE "BANQUET AS I'LL BE
LISTENING IN ON THE RADIO AN' WILL KNOW IF YOU ARE THERE-
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT SOUP SOUNDS.. LIKE STATIC ON THE RADIO?
BY GOLLY-IT'S BAD ENOUGH... TO LISTEN TO THE SPEECHES
WITHOUT REPEATIN
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Mrs. Emma Hobough, who shot and killed her parens, PLA, KELÍ Mra. Henry Bussler; her brother, John Basaler, and her own daughter, Viola Hobough, at the Bassler farm, has been sent to hospital for tho insane. The victims were killed with a shotgun during a dispute as to whether Viola was to have a Christmas tree and Christmas toys,
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THAT ALL THE MEMBERS ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT.
BUT HOPE..
BALACE BRADY - CYRUS MORMICK, BA: DROCKSETELLER OR 3 JADORÁ DUNKARNA Gossip along New York's Rialto is to the effect that Alice Brady, noted actress, will be one of the earliest starters in the 1925, Matri monial Sweepstakes, and has coupled her name with that of Kenneth McKenna, actor, said to have been cast for her fatura leading man' in the little drama of life. Miss Brady is the divorced wife of James Crane Cyrus H. McCormick, millionaire head of the Harvester Company, has been made defendant in a suit for $500,000 for alleged alienation of the affections of Mra. Edwin W. Jacoba, of New York, whose husband is the plaintiff, MeCormick's counsel has not replied to the charges except to request transfer of the proceed. ings from the State to the Federal Courts in New York. Meanwhile, it is reported, Mrs. Jacobs is strangely missing. **** John D. Rockefeller, J., has given stock of the Standard Oil Company of California, valued at approximately $1,000,000, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to further the museum's educational work Trustees of the museum have voted to add the gift to the museum's permanent endowment fund...
Isadora Duncan, noted dancer, who has been living in Berlin, was refused a passport vian to go to Paris by the French Embassy because of her alleged connection with the Bolshevist movement, when she visited Moscow, She is reported to be planning an appeal against the action of the Embassy.
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