Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director of Chicago's United Charities). Potent, indeed, are Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, heads of the Chicago Tribune. But Mr. McCormick would hardly leave the Tribune to act in an advisory capacity at City Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises (TIME, Jan. 14). It was recalled, last week, that the maternal grandfather of these men, Joseph Medill. was elected Mayor in 1871, running, after the great fire, on a "Fireproof ticket. Among other possible candidates, Hale Holden, railroader, has more than local interests...
First, John Blymyer went to Doc Lenhart, of York, who told him he was bewitched; then he had powwows with Doc Sam Schmuck and Maizie Homer who both told him the same thing, though neither of them knew who had hexed him. Last, he tried Mrs. Noll. Each time he went to her, she told John Blymyer the same thing: "Rehmeyer done...
This was the story which John Blymyer told last week in court at York, Pa., standing trial for the murder of Nelson D. Rehmeyer. "Are you unhexed now?" Judge Ray Sherwood asked him. "Yes. I got the witch. ..." said John Blymyer...
...pigs perish, appeal to the U. S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there was controversial talk last week...
Elihu Root who has been everything from U. S. Secretary of State (1905-1909) to Trustee of the New York Public Library and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted an invitation from the league of Nations, last week, and will sit on a commission called to revise the statutes of the World Court...