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Rowdy Democrats from dingy Pawtucket, five miles away, seemed to be approaching on two quarters, armed to the teeth. The Pawtucket Star, a weekly established to bait the Journal, was to become a daily tabloid, change its title to Rhode Island Star. Back of the Star was Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Back of him was Walter E. O'Hara, managing director of Pawtucket's Narragansett race track. Announcing the change, the Star defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back...
...Fellows are Cesar L. Barber '35, of Washington, D. C.; James B. Fisk, of Pawtucket, R. I.; George L. Haskins '35, of Cambridge, Mass.; John B. Howard '35, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; James C. La Driere, of Ann Arbor, Mich.; John C. Oxtoby, of San Anselmo, Calif.; and William F. Whyte, of Branxville...
...Pawtucket, R. I. one day last month a prize-winning Boston terrier named Sox, worth about $200, vanished from an automobile owned by Walter E. O'Hara, operator of prosperous Narragansett Racing Park. Because his wife Cle dearly loved the dog, Operator O'Hara boomed over his park loudspeakers that afternoon an offer of $250 for Sox's return, sent 100 ushers, watchmen, clerks, grooms out to scour the neighborhood. When they returned emptyhanded, Operator O'Hara upped his reward to $1,000 alive. He bought space in Providence, Boston and other New England newspapers...
...miserable animal to a nearby farmhouse. The farmer promptly led him to a tree, pointed to a poster. It was Sox. Hastily summoned, a veterinarian gave the dog an injection of glucose and a 50-50 chance to live, rushed it to the O'Haras' home in Pawtucket. There last week Sox, wasted from 20 to 6½ lb., was under constant care of two veterinarians and Mrs. O'Hara. Finder Kelley, more concerned with his creditors than with Sox's health, kept mum about what he would do with his $1,000 windfall...
...years had lifted 100 safes, stolen 25 automobiles and shot two policemen ran the gauntlet of 46 police squad cars, escaped. Three Omaha bandits held up the One Horse Grocery, tied up its two occupants, willfully shot one, fled with a few dollars. Around Boston and in Pawtucket, R. I. four cinema houses were bombed. New York police found no clue to the disappearance of $590,000 worth of treasury notes from a Wall Street bank. The victim of a New Jersey "ride'' was found frozen in a ditch near Matawan. And in Washington, 600 of the nation...