Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnesota. Henry Virkula lived in Big Falls, ran a candy store. He had a wife, two children, a car. One day last fortnight he drove them all to International Falls on the Canadian border, started back for home along the public highway after dark. Mrs. Virkula was in the front seat with him, the children asleep in the back. He stopped to light a cigaret, then drove on along the lonely wooded road...
...Border Patrolman Emmet J. White, 24, came up to the car. Shrieked Mrs. Virkula: "You've killed him." 'Replied White: "I'm sorry, lady, but I done my duty." No liquor was found in the car. The Virkula children woke up, began...
...case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff Law." He insisted that the patrolmen had been ordered to use their guns only for self-defense or to prevent the commission of a felony, but later announced that he would forbid the carrying of shotguns and rifles...
...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
When Mexican revolutionists, pursued, scamper across Mexico's northern border they land in Texas. But southbound fugitives emerge in Guatemala, which has a small outlet on the Atlantic, a large coastal line on the Pacific, and a stretch of mountainous country in between. South of Guatemala lies Salvador, which is a comparatively narrow strip of country along the Pacific, big Honduras shutting it off on the Caribbean side. In eastern Guatemala the principal product is bananas. In western Guatemala and throughout Salvador the principal product is coffee. A large percentage of the population of both Guatemala and Salvador...