Grey Cliff News Highlights and Local Visits
A Grey Cliff round up of visits and small-town happenings includes Tom and Mrs Hoyem Gus Marquette and Carl Hausserman from Bridger Creek and Wheat deliveries. Local residents Otto Orr Flattum Rostad and women at band practice. Carding of hair styles, tonsil operation Ollie Gregory and Dr Baxter visits. Baby clinic success protests at judges roast. Fourth of July plans Bridger Creek schoolhouse band offer from Grey Cliff. Empress Coffee advertised at Kellogg Mercantile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grey Cliff
Farmers’ Union
Bridger Creek School House
Bridger
Pancho Villa Wins World Flyweight Title at Polo Grounds
Pancho Villa from the Philippines defeated British champion Jimmy Wilde in the seventh round at the Polo Grounds before about 40,000 spectators. Villa launched a devastating early assault, Wilde fought on bravely but faded, and Villa emerged as world flyweight champion in a decisive stoppage. Wilde was carried to his corner and later to his dressing room, still dazed and unable to recognize his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polo Grounds
New York
Pancho Villa
Dynamo
Philippines
Jimmy Wilde
Wilde
Villa
Atom
Mystery Woman in Missouri Ties to Croker Will Case
Mrs. R. B. Kays in Bland Missouri identifies herself as the Mrs. Guy Marone tied to the Richard Croker Sr. will dispute. She says she married Guy Marone in 1911 and divorced in 1919, and that they rented an apartment in Northampton Massachusetts in 1911. She sent a cable to Mrs. Croker asserting Mrs. Marone lived with Davies in Northampton, claiming proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bland, Mo
R. B. Kays
Rock Island Railroad
Bell
Associated Press
Guy Marone
Richard Croker
Will Case
Truck Driver Learns He Is Heir to Earl Covington Title
Russell S. Houston, 31, a lumber truck driver in Oakland, reads a British court document naming him sole heir to a large estate and the title Earl of Covington. The San Francisco Examiner says Houston is a grandson of the late earl, who died in Salt Lake City two years ago. Houston resigns, informs his mother Anita Houston Congdon, and plans to travel to London in about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Russell S. Houston
Oakland
Earl of Covington
San Francisco Examiner
Houston
Examiner
Earl
Anita Houston Congdon
Lord Covington
Salt Lake City
Honston
England
America
London
Code To Cover Flag Usage Is Adopted
The conference of national organizations led by the American Legion adopted a code for proper civilian flag use and conduct and authorized a permanent committee to disseminate it nationwide. Resolutions urge promotion of studying The Star Spangled Banner and teaching it in schools and juvenile groups, with state legislatures urged to enact uniform school flag display laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Legion
Harding
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tom Hoyem
Gus Marquette
Bridger Creek
Carl Hausserman
Clarence Flattum
Oscar Braaten
George Hughes
Springdale
Lena Hausserman
Orr
Sister Hauserman
Pracice
Jim Whiting
Gobbler’s Gulch
Mr. Orr
Thelmar Thorson
Thelmar
Oscar Rostad
Louis Harrison
John Forster
California
John Ellingson and Son
Billings
John
Ollie Gregory
Ollie
Dr. Baxter
Olsen Ranch
Miss Olsen
Chicago
Mike Samac
Mr. Olsen
Tom Olsen
Mercer
Tom
Kellogg Mercantile Company
Missouri
Willys-Overland
Overlands
Willys-Knights
Overland and
Willys-Knight Motor Cars
Overland
Willys-Knight
J. N. Willys
Willys-Overland, Inc
Toledo, Ohio
Country Club
F. O. B. Toledo
Motor Inn
BIG Timber
Mont
Fontana
Churchill & Amery
Miller’s
Goodyear
Superior
Sharp Motor Company
Hickman Hardware
Veblen Hardware Co
New Post Office
F. R. Hickman
Mar
Detroit
Ford
L. F. Douthett Auto Co
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