It Was Just A Joke but Name Stuck
Swampers Louisiana April 10 residents puzzled by local name as postal authorities note a federal gift tax record showing 1938 revenue of 34 698 000 dollars.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1939
Page
5
Washington Off the Record A look at social Washington politics
Sigrid Arne notes Washington society amid looming presidential election talk. Orson Welles frets over attire at a stag dinner with President Roosevelt. Gene Buck persuades him to stay. Hostesses juggle schedules, gossip and campaigns, while insiders tease campaign themes and bureaucratic rest.
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Washington
Orson Welles
Welles
Roosevelt
Gene Buck
Buck
New York
Senate Adjourns in Memory of Bewhiskered Lewis
The Senate met at noon and adjourned to honor James Hamilton Lewis a soldier diplomat and statesman He died of a heart attack at Garfield Hospital His career spanned Congress from 1896 a colorful figure noted for red whiskers and flashed waistcoats He was a linguist scholar and writer with service in the Spanish American War and World War I
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Senate
Lewis
Washington
U.P
James Hamilton Lewis
Jim Hamilton
Garfield Hospital
Virginia
Savannah
Washington Territory
Territorial
Congress
Chicago
Mount Vernon
Negro contralto Merian Anderson opens open air concert after DAR ban
Merian Anderson, barred from Constitution Hall for racial reasons, sang before about 75 000 listeners on the Lincoln Memorial steps. Secretary Ickes praised the free open air event while the DAR resignation and Roosevelt sponsorship ripple through as the concert follows a school board compromise and broadcast by NBC. Also notes Cleon Best harvested 432 bushels of corn from 2.6 acres with a $209 profit in 1938.
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Washington
U.P
Merian Anderson
Abraham Lincoln
Miss Anderson
Washington Monument
National Broadcasting Company
Daughters of the American Revolution
Constitution Hall
District of Columbia School Board
Harold L. Ickes
Lincoln Memorial
Ickes
Cleon Best
North Carolina
Man Who Invented Hispeed Press Dies
Henry A. Wise Wood, 73, inventor of the hispeed newspaper printing press, autoplate, auto reel, and autopaster, died of pneumonia. His innovations boosted output from 24 000 to 60 000 copies per hour. He chaired Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation and contributed to aviation and literature.
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New York
Henry A. Wise Wood
Hispeed
Wood
Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation
Wedding Bells Ring Out for Very Tall Man
ROCKFORD Illinois April 10 Clifford Thompson of Scandinavia Wisconsin who claims to be the second tallest man in the world and Mary Bars of Milwaukee were wed here yesterday Thompson is 8 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 460 pounds His bride is 5 feet 5 inches tall Thompson is said to be surpassed only by Robert Wadlow of Alton Illinois 8 feet 8 inches and 491 pounds
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Rockford
Ill
Clifford Thompson
Scandinavia
Wis
Mary Bars
Milwaukee
Thompson
Robert Wadlow
Alton
Wadlow
Glad I'm Alive Boosts Appetite and Digestion Says Dr Pierce
A testimonial claims Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery improves appetite and gastric juice flow, relieving stomach upsets from excess acidity. It is described as a tonic that builds you up and makes you feel peppy, available in fluid and tablet forms at druggists.
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Dr. Pierce
Monkey swims to mainland in unusual record claim
A Rhesus monkey in Puerto Rico swam five eighths of a mile to the mainland, a feat described as possibly a record. The wind and spring pruning mention trees shedding dead limbs to grow anew. A survey shows US snuff consumption in 1938 reached 32 times 1870 levels with more than half of sales in the South.
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Puerto Rico
United States
South
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