5 stories, chosen from 39 newspapers of the day and shown exactly as they were printed. Every clipping is the original page, linked to its scan at the Library of Congress.
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ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall, rector of a New Brunswick, N.J., church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on an abandoned farm in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and is being prosecuted at Somerville by special prosecutor Alexander Simpson. Exhumation is the digging up of a buried body, here so doctors can examine the wounds again.
As printed: SAYS EVANGELIST SENT LETTER TO RADIO OPERATOR
ContextAimee Semple McPherson, founder of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, disappeared from a beach in May and reappeared weeks later near the Arizona-Mexico border saying she had been kidnapped; Kenneth G. Ormiston had been the radio operator at the temple's broadcasting station. Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County.
As printed: FOUR MEMBERS OF 1 FAMILY BLAST VICTIMS
ContextNanticoke is a town in the anthracite coal region near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. A colliery is a mine with its surface works, and a vein is a seam of coal worked underground.
ContextHarry Houdini, the magician and escape artist, fell ill while on tour and was operated on in Detroit for appendicitis. Peritonitis is an infection of the lining of the abdomen, and doctors have few means of checking it.
ContextVersailles is a town just outside Paris; the item appeared in an American correspondent's column of notes from France. Devil's Island was the French penal colony in Guiana to which the worst-regarded convicts were sent.
