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During a foot chase, a fleeing suspect looked backward and ran headlong into a parked Ford, knocking himself out. The newspaper added that the Ford was uninjured.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 28, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Police said a set of false teeth became the clue that helped identify and arrest a young burglary suspect — an unusually specific object to leave behind at a crime scene.
The Waco News-Tribune · Sept. 28, 1926
Open the original newspaper ↗To preserve the crumbling brownstone of Trinity Church, workers planned to heat the stone and treat it with molten paraffin to make it more water-resistant.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 28, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Writer Don Marquis set aside $100 to learn how shipboard card cheats worked. Instead, he kept winning — and another passenger eventually identified Marquis himself as the supposed card sharp.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 28, 1926 · p. 2
Open the original newspaper ↗The article floated a much tastier theory: Ponce de León may have returned to Aguadilla partly because he liked the local lobsters. It even described a carved figure entwined with an enormous lobster.
El Reno Daily Democrat · Sept. 28, 1926 · p. 4
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