Word: hix
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Last June at Columbus, Dr. James Howard Snook, 49, professor of veterinary medicine at Ohio State University, quarreled with Theora Hix, 24, coed. For three years they had loved surreptitiously, Dr. Snook plying her with aphrodisiacs...
Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
Last week, McClure Newspaper Syndicate put out a "new" feature. At the head are the words "Strange as It Seems-by John Hix." Below were cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend, "If you doubt this, write for proof to the author...
Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder Hix...