Miscellany: Head

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In Knoxville, Tenn. four Negroes were arraigned on a charge of having taken the head out of a murdered man's grave, planning to pray to it three hours daily for six days for directions how to find buried treasure. Said Arthur Bolden: "Somehows I felt I had to git that head and talk to it."

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In Oklahoma City, Prohibition Agents Alter Acord and Mel West went to raid a suspected house, found it was outside their jurisdiction. A storm came up. Ten inches of rain fell on Oklahoma. The North...

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