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Notified of the Governor's gust in Pittsburgh (whose Mayor Charles Howard Kline is facing a fine and jail sentence for malfeasance), surprised Samuel Seabury promptly promised to send the transcript and "analysis" of Mayor Walker's testimony this week to Albany...
Last year Mrs. Mellish caught her husband with a 15-year-old girl in his lens-grinding shop. Mrs Mellish had him arrested. Last week Professor Frost was trying to get him free. But Lens-Grinder Mellish objected. Liberty and libido were inconsequential to him. In jail or outside he wanted to go on grinding lenses. "I transgressed Society's laws," said he. "I must do penance...
Louis Armstrong, maestro of jazz, would be a good subject for one of his own songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year...
...neighborhood ... and that verbal attacks from her had made life miserable for the residents. Her actions made life miserable during the night as well as during the day. for she did not cease even when darkness came." Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk...
...news from Dartmouth, Massachusetts is profoundly annoying. It is out of tune with the times. An innocent and unsuspecting Harvard anthropology student who went there in April and exhumed the bodies of slightly more than two dozen Wamponoag Indians is now in danger of suffering a three year jail sentence or a two thousand dollar fine for each set of musty bones which he spaded out of Farmer Soares little pasture. The Selectmen of the town are making no bones about it--they weren't even consulted, now they're insulted...