Floods in Algeria Kill Hundreds and Wreck Towns
Governor General Maurice Violette reported disasters across Mostaganem and Perregaux after forty eight hours of rains. Death tolls reached about 150 with hundreds more feared dead as floods and dam failures swamped towns, with airlifts providing relief and a 500000 franc aid pledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Oran
Algeria
Maurice Violette
Belizana
Mostaganem
Perregaux
Fourgoure
Paris
Bon Henne
Saint Denis Dusing
Christmas letters to Santa from Amarillo children
A flooded page of children's letters to Santa includes Nellie Jane Love Homer Clark Wait Ruth A Boarts Anna Fay Norwood Milton Bopp Baby Ruth Campbell Dorothy Lash Catherine Gaynell and Carol Cleveland Glen Smith Virginia Culpepper Nina Pence Bobbin Pence and others asking for dolls trains trucks and riding toys. A medical ad ends the page.
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Santa
Marie
Evajean
Claudie Lorane
Anna Fay Norwood
Cleveland
Dorothy Lash
Happy, Texas
Bootlegging Crackdown After Dismantled Still Found
State police hunt bootleggers after discovering a dismantled still and four 200 gallon copper boilers on Pussyfoot Johnson's farm in Smithville Flats New York where he summers. Coils and other apparatus were hidden in trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Smithville Flats
N. Y
Pussyfoot Johnson
Western Mutual Health & Accident Association clears Texas authority
The Western Mutual Health & Accident Association of Amarillo has complied with Texas law to operate in the state. A Certificate of Authority has been issued for the year ending February 29, 1928, by R. B. Cousins, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department OF Insurance
State of Texas
Austin
Texas
Western Mutual Health & Accident Association of Texas
Amarillo
R. B. Cousins, JR
Board of Insurance Commissioners
No. 9 Rat Killer Envelopes Ad Claims Fast Rodent Kill
A vintage ad promises No 9 Rat Killer envelopes will lure rats to eat poison and die within 24 hours. The No 9 Company of Columbus Georgia offers refunds if it fails, urging purchase from druggists for thirty five cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 9 Company
Columbus
Adv
McCoy's Tablets Promote Weight Gain for Skinny Men
A vintage health ad touts McCoy's Tablets as the top weight gain aid for underweight men and women. It offers an ironclad guarantee: after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes, if there is no at least five pound gain and improved health, the druggist will refund the purchase price. The product name is shortened to MecCoy's Tablets and sold at Fox, Randal and Post Office Drug Store and other outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoy
MecCoy
Fox, Randal and Post Office Drug Store
America
Modern Pepys Sees Earl Carroll Saddened in New York
In New York on November 26, the writer observes Bart Carroll’s morning gloom and visits various figures at Bryant Park and Lindy’s. He recalls art galleries on Fifth and Madison, describes gallery sales, a nightclub MC’s flummery, and a comic youth at a cafe, concluding he will frequent the city more.
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New York
Bart Carrol
Blind George
Bryant Park
H. N. Swanson
Lee Shubert
Alice Brady
Gene Buck
Lindy's
Dinener
al Jolson
Roy Howard
Will Irwin
John Golden
Fifth and
Madison Avenues
Mall
Tombs prison on Lafayette Street looms as gloomy spectacle
Describes the Tombs on Lafayette Street with its high fence and somber building in gray tones. Crowds gather at the narrow windows hoping to glimpse a relative while vendors sell salacious pictures and pamphlets to passersby near the entrance.
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Lafayette Street
Bridge of Sighs
New York
Collegiate Musical Show on Broadway Survives Jokes
A 1927 copyright notice credits the McNaug Syndicate Inc for a collegiate musical show that hits on Broadway and endures through its jokes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNaug Syndicate, Inc
Eugenie Besserer Wins Coveted Madame Ryoko Role
Eugenie Besserer lands the dramatic part of Madame Ryoko in the adaption of Leetherface, a standout role following her success in The Fire Brigade and Drame of Love. The mother torn between husband and son is hailed as a premier character plum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fly International News Service
Hollywood
Calif
Madame Ryoko
Baron Orety
Leetherface
Eugenie Besserer
Jars Singer
Fire Brigade
Dr. W. Griffith
Yeni
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Santa Claus
Nellie Jane Love
Tama
Homer Clark
Ruth A. Boarts
River Road Gardens
Mamma
Milton Bopp
Fillmore
Baby Ruth Campbell
Hughes
Catherine Gaynell
Carol Cleveland
North Pierce
Ruth Campbell
Glen Smith
Polk
Deai Santa Claus
Virginia Culpepper
Houston
Nina Pence
Bast
Wolcott
Blackburn Building
PEPYS
Earl Carroll
Man OF
McIntyre
Prince Albert
Firestone
Oldfield
Courier
Louis H. Smith Organization
Dial
Louis H.smith
Firestone Service
Phon
Per Dolla
Baby
Gray Photo Shop
Polk Street
College Magauarnes
MOV
J. N. Vernon
Troy Laundry
National Laundry Owners’ Association
Troy
Contest Department
Tyler
Sheaffer
Wb Va
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