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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widespread, battled search which followed chased vain clues throughout New England, into Canada, as far south as Orlando, Fla. Once Judge Crater was thought to have joined his old law associate, U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, in Europe. Several Broadway girls professed acquaintance with him. Showgirl June Manners, said to be his friend, also was reported missing...
Until last week if J. O. Villeneuve of Manhattan wanted to buy 1,000 shares of Dix Butte Mining Co. he would have to ask an over-the-counter house to search for a seller, or else arrange to obtain the stock on the San Francisco Mining Exchange. But last week when Mr. Villeneuve decided he wanted 1,000 Dix Butte he did none of these things. He simply went to the New York Mining Exchange of which he is a member, bought the 1,000 shares from Benjamin M. Berger, fellow member, for 40? a share...
Dead Men. Mrs. Western testified that her husband had been summoned to the Acra estate, had gone there in his car several hours before "Skunky" Klein was known to have started in it to Brooklyn. She and the police feared Western was dead, directed a widespread search for his body, which would be evidence upon which to apprehend the legally elusive Diamond. Whether or not Western was dead, two other alleged racketeers were surely dead in Brooklyn, and two more were in hospitals, struggling to keep alive, all shot since Klein's drunken revelations. Because of these shootings, District...
...back even to the founding of the colony. In 1902 three young friends, Hervey White, the late Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Coit Brown, fired with a dream that Poet-Painter William Morris (1834-96) had outlined to Whitehead at Oxford, started tramping through the eastern U. S. in search of a model site for an art colony. White and Whitehead roamed the Carolinas, but it was Brown who discovered Woodstock.? He sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants...
...home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east, but no trace was found until Horn's fortuitous discovery...