Word: orillia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gourmets. In Troy, N.Y., three recaptured prisoners explained why they had escaped from Cheshire County (N.H.) jail: "Fried potatoes, day after day, meal after meal." Near Orillia, Ont., Walter Richmond told police that when he remarked to Restaurant Owner Harry Shore that the hamburger was cold, Shore shot him in the ankle with a .32 revolver...
Died. Martin John Insull, 77, after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. In 1934 he was acquitted with brother Samuel (who died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station in 1938) of charges of embezzlement that allegedly caused the 1932 collapse of their fabulous $2 billion Middle West Utility Co. British subject Insull was subsequently deported to Canada, where, until his death, he lived in modest obscurity...