Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usurper, the rightful Emperor of Ethiopia being dusky Lij Yasu (Child of Jesus), came again to the fore when imprisoned Child of Jesus was rumored to have been put to death by Power of Trinity who last week denied the deed, claimed that Child of Jesus remains safe in jail...
...Germany. Men guffawed, women flushed and giggled as he cried: "You can't make a Jew out of a German by getting him circumcised in a synagogue! . . . Thank God that, although there is yet no law to prevent race pollution, we have judges who send men to jail for defiling the proud German race! . . . The priests will marry even a Negro and a German woman, providing they are both Catholics, but after nine months what do we have in the basket? A child with every stigma of darky blood. ... In America almost every week a Negro is lynched...
...city, in farms and schools outside it, he has cared for as many as 536 orphans at a time, today has some 300 in his charge. Of the thousands of Negroes turned out of the Jenkins Orphanage at 14, he claims that less than ten have ended up in jail. Grizzled, black-garbed and oiling at 74, Daniel Jenkins is Charleston's No. 1 Negro citizen, prosperous enough to have been touched for a loan by a white Charlestonian stranded in London in the early days of the World War. The fame & fortune of the Jenkins Orphanage, however...
...moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with it and be killed. Clay...
...When Jacob Terry put up a fence that endangered the dogs, the old men quarreled, but Spring Davis' son nevertheless continued to make love to Jacob Terry's daughter. Bugle Ann disappeared, and Spring Davis, believing that Terry had killed her, shot him and went to jail. Bugle Ann's collar and bones were found far away, making it clear that Terry had not killed the animal. Suddenly her unmistakable voice rose out over the hills at night, giving rise to stories of a ghostly hound that would race forever. Spring Davis was pardoned, returned to hear...