World’s Worst Singer and City Beggar Schemes
A feature on New York’s Metropolitan Opera House drawing world class talent while a blind beggar outside on Fortieth Street sings with a tone described as lifeless. The piece surveys beggars with city licenses, street farming in tenements, and a clever con man using a bulldog to boost receipts, plus the May Day removal of apple peddlers under city limits.
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Metropolitan Opera House
Fortieth Street
Broadway
New York
United States
London
Dickens
Boz
Ira
Manhattan
Tammany
Genere
Oldest Ford Driver in Mississippi Celebrates 89
J. M. Crow of Ethel Mississippi is the oldest Ford driver in the state and among the nation’s oldest. He rode in a wagon train from Cobb County Georgia to Mississippi as a child during the outlaw years. He recalls General Scott’s Chapultepec victory and served in the Civil War. Crow walked 400 miles home after the southern defeat and watched transportation evolve from stagecoaches to motor vehicles. Five generations ride together in his Model A Ford, the second he has owned.
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J. M. Crow
Ethel, Miss
Mississippi
United States
Cobb County
Georgia
Natchez Trace
Scott
Chapultepec
Crow
Ethel
Wealthy Panhandlers and the Court Clerk Tale
A fragment describes a long running tale of panhandlers manipulating the system. It references a police court incident where a beggar was fined a large sum, handed to a court clerk to secure freedom, and the clerk was unable to act beyond accepting the bill.
Garden Club Leaders Named for Hiawatha Area
Baldwin serves as treasurer with Goldie Eggart of Hiawatha Watersmeet Garden Club as president and Marion Baldwin as vice president. Rey Caudill is secretary, Pearl Loveless treasurer, with Raymond Brash also listed. Separate clubs for boys and girls organized, MH A. Baldwin et Watersmeet endorse local leadership while W A Willard to lead Meveniseco.
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MH A. Baldwin Et
Watersmeet
W. A. Willard
Meveniseco
County Garden Club Officers Named After Meeting
Six garden clubs with a total enrollment of 108 organized at Watersmeen and Marenisee by Gunderson agricultural agent Tar Offieds. Officers include presidents James McNicholas Tune Amdo team I. J. Contwito Kathryn Thomas and Regina Cestowski with vice presidents, secretaries, and treasurers across the five clubs.
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Watersmeen
Marenisee
Gunderson
Aiereniseo Garden Club
James McNicholas
Wm. Sarrinmen
Harold Christianson
James Coners
Trakiel
Lumber firm to abandon Ironwood operations after logging off lands
The Montreal River Lumber Company will abandon its idle saw mill at Ironwood and logging operations in Iron County Wisconsin because all lands it controls have been logged. The mill closed last fall, but Ironwood yards will sell stock lumber locally and ship by rail. The company has conducted logging over its 14 mile private railroad between the mill and Island Lake.
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Montreal River Llumber Company
Ironwood
Ten County
Wis
Island Lake
Hoover urges global armament cuts and goodwill
President Hoover addressing the International Chamber of Commerce warns that international confidence rests on goodwill, urges armament reductions, and notes U S efforts toward cuts in war and Navy budgets. He argues peace rests on demobilization and economic recovery following wars.
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Washington
Hoover
International Chamber of Commerce
White House
Pat Hurley
Douglas MacArthur
Rapidan
War
Navy
America
United States
Government Reports Shape Business Faith in Trade Upswing
Observers note that Federal Reserve Board findings on a nine percent April sales rise for department stores, despite Easter shifts, reflect stronger consumer activity and hint at a manufacturing upswing. Business leaders trust official data as a clearer sector-wide picture than isolated firm reports, signaling a healthier economy ahead.
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Federal Reserve Board
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for infants and children
An advertisement promotes Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a simple remedy for fevers wetting accidents or stomach upsets in children. It claims to ease bowel movements, reduce head ache, improve appetite, and aid digestion for all ages, urging mothers to obtain the syrup from local dealers.
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Coliwell
Calwell
Kane
Abe uniTwe
Apictiean Medical
Pr Caldwell
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Ethel Hill
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Radford Mobley
Washington Burea
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