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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trenton, N. J. celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement. Nov. 5-7-Nebraska celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Nov. 11-Armistice Day. Foreign News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Trenton, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Hudak sued for divorce, said: "My husband set me to watch a mouse hole in our home. . . . I let the mouse get away and he beat me severely with a broom handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Springfield, N. J., an automobile proceeded down the road in a manner that interested a motorcycle patrolman. Drawing alongside, he found Driver Frank Urban, his hands off the wheel, peering into a compass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, one M. J. Abbott, golfing, tried for a birdie. When the ball landed on the fairway, a crow swooped down, snatched the ball in its beak, flew away. "It's a birdie," said Golfer Abbott's merry companions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Such last month was the shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shrewd | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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