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  2. BIT[?]S OF LIFE[?]

    BLOOD tests of a baby girl may be taken at Fairview Park Hospital (Cleveland, U.S.A.), to determine whether she is the child ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. WORKMEN LOOK FOR TREASURE.

    STORIES of a miser's hoard which is said to be hidden in an old house in Streatham Hill, London, are giving an added excitement to the workmen ...

    Article : 252 words
  4. BRIDE LEFT BEHIND.

    THE people of Bromley, Kent, have been discussing the comedy of a bride-[?] groom. There was a wedding at St. Luke's ...

    Article : 182 words
  5. NO WAY OUT.

    "YOU know suicide is no way out of this trouble. It will cause infinitely more trouble to your wife and child than Anything that might happen here, so ...

    Article : 186 words
  6. HIS LIFE FOR SCIENCE.

    MR. Sidney Rawson Wilson, a noted Manchester surgeon and one of the most famous anaesthetists in the north of England, was found dead in his study at ...

    Article : 305 words
  7. WHOLE VILLAGE ARRESTED.

    THE inhabitants of the Bulgarian village of Lopuitza, who were in despair owing to the continual stormy weather, resolved to have recourse to ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. BELLBOYS' ART.

    LONDON bellboys must be discretion itself to hold their jobs. They are trained to give a subdued cough when[?] ever they approach a lady and gentleman ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. ELECTROCUTED THROUGH DRESS.

    MLLE. Cosette Gillard, a Paris actress, met her death in singular circumstances. She had finished her performance at ...

    Article : 47 words
  10. COLD WATER LOVE CURE.

    LETTERS and postcards from an inf[?]atuated man to a West London shop girl, who rejected his advances, were read at the Old Bailey (London) when ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. VALUELESS CHEQUES FOR BIBLES.

    TALL[?] grave and fair-haired, Samuel Gibson Hadwen (23)[?] a clergyman's son, admitted, at the Melbourne City Court, having obtained £17/17/7 from ...

    Article : 202 words
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    BOY SCAR[?]EES AND CROW SCAREES[?]: People at [?]ent, England[?] hold a competition to [?] [?] the [?] of village children regarding scarecrows. A 12-year-old boy won with his effigy of an angry farmer. This shows the line of scarecrows awaiting Judgment (Daily Mirror, photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  13. THOROUGH SUICIDE ATTEMPT.

    A non-commissioned officer, employed at Cracow Powder Works (Russia) became temporarily insane, as it is supposed, and decided to commit suicide by ...

    Article : 93 words
  14. A PROVIDENT WILL.

    MR. Henry Ruffer, of Ladbroke[?]grove, London, a director of the Royal Insurance Company, left property valued for probate at £76[?]939. He left a life ...

    Article : 121 words
  15. GIRL PLEADS FOR ATTACKER.

    A GIRL who had been the victim of a knife attack and as a result will be disfigured for life appeared at the Old Bailey, London, heavily bandaged to ...

    Article : 164 words
  16. MISER'S DEATH.

    POLICE forced the door of a back room in Crozier-street, Lambeth, England, and found John Batey, aged 83, a wealthy recluse, dead on the floor. ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. HIS BROTHER'S BROTHER.

    A BIG Brother[?]. Mr. J. Burke, of Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, met the Little Brother allotted to him on the Largs Bay recently, and discovered that ...

    Article : 216 words
  18. KILLED BY BEANS.

    SWELLING of bits of three navy beans which lodged in her bronchial tubes and lungs, brought death to June, year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walla[?]ce. ...

    Article : 91 words
  19. "WHARFIE'S" FORTITUDE.

    WHARFIES" are used to taking hard knocks without growling in the ordinary course of cargo handling on ship[?]board, but lumper R. Jackson, after a ...

    Article : 97 words
  20. GIRL HIDES WITH HENS.

    A LITTLE girl who played too long on her way home from school and was afraid to face her parents was found after she had hidden in a chicken coop ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. "[?]NOT A LOVE NEST."

    MORRIS Alfred Barclay[?] who was stated to have been educated at Oxford and to have had a distinguished war career, was committed for trial on ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. LONELIEST MAN DIES.

    AFTER eight months[?] news has come from the Canadian Far North, of the death of the loneliest man in the world. He died on or about New Year's Day, ...

    Article : 235 words
  23. MURDER FOR INSURANCE.

    A PLOT in which two New York youths were hired to throw another out of a row boat so that 14,0,0 insurance on his life could be collected was ...

    Article : 102 words
  24. FORGETFUL.

    AFTER [?] Thompson, a youn[?]g man from Orbost, had pleaded guilty in the Victorian Criminal Court to nine charges of obtaining goods by false ...

    Article : 108 words
  25. SUICIDE AFTER BEATING HORSE.

    GUSTAV KLEMPA, aged 26, a teamster, who[?] had been arrested on a charge of ill-treating a horse, broke away from two policemen who were escorting ...

    Article : 62 words
  26. KILLED BY HIS OWN TRAP.

    BOYS stealing apples from a [?]ree in his back yard exasperated Delbert Lambrix, of Minneapolis (U.S.A.), so he circled it with barbed wire connected to a ...

    Article : 48 words
  27. BURGLAR'S BUSINESS CARD.

    VINCENT Francis Bald[?] housebreaker, carried on his profession in a business-like way. He drafted a card on which was printed in red ink:— ...

    Article : 96 words
  28. A BLOCKHEAD?

    FALLING six feet from a moving auto, landing on the pavement on his head, only to get up and walk toward the side[?] walk with a slight cut on the lip was ...

    Article : 77 words
  29. BRIDEGROOM BLIND, DEAF AND [?]0.

    AT the age of 80. Frederick Stephen[?] son, who is blind and deaf, was married recently at Leicester Roman Catholie Church to Mrs. Mary Ann Reilly, who ...

    Article : 46 words
  30. STABBED FOR SNORING.

    A SPANISH miner named Sanchez[?] who snored too loudly[?] was stabbed three times by a man who shared his bedroom at Marseilles. ...

    Article : 32 words
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