~~OLD NEWS FROM OTHER STATES~

News that I have collected over the years and now want to share with you.  Enjoy!

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Joliet, Illinois, July 5, 1931, Arthur Miller, age 33, holed out of the Illinois state penitentiary yesterday while serving life for murder.  Miller was a trusty, and alone in the office Warden Henry C. Hill, he spotted a complete golf outfit belonging to the warden's son, Phillip.  He changed clothes picked up the bag of clubs  and walked out.  He successfully fooled a lot of guards who later explained they thought he was a golfer who had sliced a shot into the penitentiary grounds. Abstracted from the Augusta Chronicle.

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A plant at Winter Haven, Florida uses grapefruit seed to manufacture an oil sold as substitute for castor and olive oils as a wetting agent in textile processing.

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