Keller on flappers and a stage star legal battle
The article describes Helen Keller’s view of the modern flapper through teacher Miss Sullivan Macy and notes a separate legal filing by actress Juliette Shelby, alias Sullette Reilly, claiming guardian funds from Miss Minter. It cites a Winnipeg wheat price surge and rising oats and corn buying driven by export demand.
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Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan Macy
Misa Keller
Miss Keller
Herother
Miss Minor
Juliette Shelby
Miss Minter
Famous Players- Lasky Corporation
Shelby
Tehalf
Winnipeg
Europe
United States
Irondale business district burned destroying many structures
Steubenville report states the Irondale business section was wiped out by fire. The blaze started at R W Nicholson general store and swept to twenty buildings. Five families were left homeless as volunteers battled the flames under heavy snow and delayed aid from nearby towns.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Irondale
Here
R. W. Nicholson
G. F. Rice
Banfield
Herrin Shooting Baffles Coroner's Jury
Funeral attendance was smaller than expected with few able to view the casket. A long procession from church to the grave proceeded through many blocks, while hundreds started the return trip as the hearse caravan neared the cemetery.
MARY MILES MINTER SUES FOR ACCOUNTING OVER WHEAT PRICES
In Los Angeles on January 29, Mary Miles Minter filed a suit seeking an accounting over a dispute with her mother about money. The case follows long running film industry gossip centering on alleged family tensions. The report notes stock market jitters from wheat and rye price rumors impacting speculation.
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Mary Miles Minter
Log Angeles
Mary
Miles Minter
Nine Children Watch Father Shoot Mother in Wheeling
Mrs. H. C. Monroe, 39, Elm Grove, is hospitalized with three bullet wounds after her husband allegedly fired on her before dawn. Police say he drank and claimed his wife was infatuated with a Fairmont oil driller. Four of the couple’s nine children witnessed the shooting. Harry Miller, a son-in-law, wrestled the gun from Monroe.
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Wheeling
W.va
H. C. Monroe
Elm Grove
North Wheeling
Harry Miller
Monroe
Fairmont
Hotel Coolidge at White River Burns in Vermont
Fire swept Hotel Coolidge in White River Junction VT tonight, the largest hostelry for the village and nearby areas, destroying 340 room wooden hotel and ten other businesses in the same building. Estimated loss 300000, jeopardizing the business district. Fire department battled the blaze as the structure burned to the ground.
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White River Junction
Coolidge
Thia Village
Vermont
New Hampshire
Junction House
Herriot policy gains broad backing in France parliament
Paris reports Premier Herriot wins a record confidence vote 41 to 32 on foreign policy with broad cross party support except for the Communists. Berlin commentary laments his aggressive stance while warning German rearmament fears may rise and bolster nationalist sentiment.
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Paris
Herriot
France
Germany
M. Herriot
Jeft
Berlin
Chamber of Deputies
Vorwaerts
Hartman Trial Opens After Eye Witnesses Testify
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania three witnesses describe the fatal shooting of Trooper Francis L. Haley on October 14 during the Hartman trial. They report a high speed pursuit from Abbotstown and a motor tourer firing the fatal shot, with Johnson identifying Hartman as the driver.
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Francis L. Haley
Gettysburg
Phillip A. Hartman
Pennsylvania
Frances McClean
F. C. Miller
Graeffenburg Inn
George Johnson
Galt
Johnson
Hartman
Publisher Broadway Brevities Convicted
The jury found Stephen G. Claw publisher of Broadway Bravities and three ad agents guilty on multiple counts of using the mails to defraud. Nat Munres was found guilty on eight counts, and Andrews Brown on nine counts, with Charles J. Green acquitted. Sentence set for Saturday morning by Judge Julian Mack. Witnesses included Countess Morner, Tex Rickard, and others. several notable figures were linked to advertising but did not testify.
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New York
Pan
Stephen G. Claw
Broadway Bravities
Claw
Andrews
Brown
Nat Munres
Charles J. Green
Will
Julian Mack
Countess Morner
Peggy Hopkins Toyce
Tex Rickard
Miss Dith Bobe
Robert L. Hague
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Helen Lea Worthington
Jack Dempsey
Flo Leeds
James A. Stillman
Otto H. Kahn
Julian Fleischmann
Jacob Ruppert
Jesse Lasky
W. Averill Harriman
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Herrin
Chicago
Hotel Coolidge
White River
Suckgon-Henderson Co
Kayser
Kaynee
Herriot Foreign Policy
Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Broadway
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