Word: cells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon sober and efficient Prague police, who do not think that Dr. Benes should tipple, tope, booze, guzzle, swig or swizzle, laid heavy hands upon Michael Maresch and clapped him into a cell...
...city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...
...Bill Harrigan of Kansas City was too fat to be placed in jail. He was freed because no cell could be found...
...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
Some of the titles are as follows: "An Affectionate Address to Young People on Filial Duty", "A Parent's Household Medical Guide", containing all the amusing and peculiar beliefs and prescriptions of the time. "The Evils of Illicit Distillation, "Saved in a Cell", and "The Profane Coachman's Conversion...