The Devil in the Dancehall (1953) – Army Lifer Qualification Chart (1970) – Sex Trafficking (Kansas City)

“The Devil’s Kiss!” The Thing #10, Sep. 1953. This 4-page comic book story is a variant of “The Devil in the Dancehall” legend. The Devil, assumed to be a man in a costume, is crowned King of the Mardi Gras. He disappears in a flash of light with the woman who was crowned queen, leaving a trail of hoof prints.

http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-devils-kiss.html

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Army lifer qualification chart. Right On (Camp Drake, Asaka, Japan), no. 1, 10 August 1970.

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article233164081.html

Kansas City Star

26 July 2019

Online rumors of sex trafficking at Country Club Plaza don’t match police narrative

Kansas City Police said in a tweet Friday morning that they had received no reports related to social media rumors of sex trafficking on the Country Club Plaza. A single report was filed Friday afternoon by the person who made the initial post about the rumors on Instagram Tuesday, police said. In the posts, a woman says she was followed by about four men as she walked around the Plaza for an hour. She said two of them followed her into a retail store and pretended to shop until she called a friend to pick her up. She says she spoke to police about the incident and watched surveillance video of “four-six men strategically casing, profiling and attempting to corner (her).” Police, she said, “confirmed that it (undoubtedly) represents a sex trafficking group.” […]

Needle in Candy Bar (Angus, ON) – Dog Snatched by Seagull (UK) – Prize Bibles

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/police-say-needle-found-in-candy-bar-purchased-in-angus-1.4511953

CTV News [Canada]

17 July 2019

Police say needle found in candy bar purchased in Angus

Nottawasaga OPP is investigating after someone reported finding a sewing needle inside a candy bar. Police say the caller purchased several candy bars from an Angus [Ontario] store on Sunday. Officers alerted the store of the incident immediately. Police say they inspected the wrapping, but couldn't determine if the needle was placed in the candy before or after manufacturing. […]

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A forensic pathologist (played by Jean-Claude Drouot) reminisces about his days as a medical student. “We used to steal the hands of corpses to slip into girls’ pockets!” “La Nuit de la Lune Rousse,” the second episode of the second season (28 March 2017) of the French crime drama Capitaine Marleau.

 

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https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dog-snatched-seagull-devon-garden-3118596

Devon Live [UK]

22 July 2019

Dog that was snatched by seagull in Devon garden still missing

A chihuahua that was taken by a seagull in a Devon garden is still missing. Four-year-old Gizmo was in the garden of Becca Hill's house in Paignton when a seagull swooped down and flew away with the small pup in its beak. […]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9574859/gizmo-chihuahua-seagull-reward-the-sun-devon/

The Sun [UK]

24 July 2019

FIND GIZMO

The Sun offers £5,000 reward to find Gizmo the Chihuahua who was snatched by SEAGULL

THE Sun is today offering a £5,000 reward in a bid to find Gizmo, the Chihuahua snatched by a huge seagull. […]

 

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 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59962

George H. Ham, Reminiscences of a Raconteur. Toronto: The Musson Book Company, 1921.

Joe Clark, of the Toronto Star, whose orchard would have seriously affected the fruit market if he had had more than three trees, once told me that his precious heir-apparent some years ago came home from Sunday School triumphantly bearing a Bible—the big prize for the most industrious pupil. The next year he brought home another Bible, but with diminished enthusiasm. The following year he appeared with a third copy of the Holy Scriptures which he meekly laid on the table, and enquiringly remarked:

“Say, Dad, how many more Bibles have I got to win before I get anything else?”