Braddon Brothers Trade Wealth and Love in Chicago
Jeb Braddon signs millions in checks in their firm’s high rise as Rod Braddon plans a future in medicine and romance. Agnes Glenelth becomes a potential wife while Jeb wrestles with desire, ambition, and family rivalries in 1920s Chicago.
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Jeb
Sjndson EF. Braddon
Beck
Spear
Misa Gilbert
Chicago
3. E Braddon and Company
Squire
Judson Eliot Braddon
Men of Destiny
Rodney
Rod
Bank of Andover
City of
Andover
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Nodney
Braddon
Jodson
Agnés Gienelth
Agnest
Agnes
Jud
Imke Shore
Beatrice
Bob
Easter Lane
Bee
Papa
Mamma
Father
Country Day School
Connecticut
Smith College
Jeb Braddon
Agnes Gleneith
Wealthy oilman leaves trust to aid education and medical care
Addison Gibson of Oklahoma Tulsa, a Pittsburgh native and former Peoples Natural Gas lease hunter, died at 75 leaving over 2.4 million of a 2.5 million estate to the Madison H. Gibson Foundation. The trust funds college loans for poor youths and medical aid, with a $100,000 bequest to his sister Annie McChesney and her daughter Martha, to revert after their deaths.
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Pittsburgh
Addison Oh.gibson
Oklahoma
Pitts- Lr Dred Bi
Annie A. McChesney
Oak Park, IL
Martha G. McChesney
Gibson
Peoples Natural Gas Company
Mexico
Tampico
Excavators Uncover Roman Theater Ruins at Scupi Belgrade
Under Belgrade university supervision Dr Nickola Vulitch leads digs at Scupi near Skoplje in Yugoslavia. A large theater complex with stage halls and corridors is being excavated revealing walls and columns that supported a velarium. The theater seats about 3000. further work may illuminate early Byzantine ecclesiastical sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
Nickola Vulitch
Belgrade University
Scupi
Skoplje
Yugoslavia
Aargicks Sisalds
Vulitch
Alcoholic Baldness Linked to Prohibition Era Habits
Chicago reports Dr Paul A. Thomas cites rising cases of baldness due to seven to eight year lags after heavy bootleg liquor use. He notes many men show early scalp damage described as hooch hair from impure alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Paul A. Thomas
Thomas
Night Club Tales And Broadway Realities In New York
A New York reporter chats with Ray Henderson about Broadway drama prospects and the slim chance of original ideas in manuscripts. Phil Baker jokes about music copyrights and utilities while night club ideas, dirt costs, and East Indian fakirs are described with wry urban humor.
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New York
Ray Henderson
Katherine Cornell
Cornell
Pee
Broadway
Phil Baker
Baker
Gabriel
Phil Duey
Humphreys remembered as fans bid fond farewell in press tribute
A nostalgic piece recalls Joe Humphreys, famed announcer known as Joe the Beaut, and his fights across New York. It highlights early street voices, battles with illness, friendships with legends like Al Smith, and career moments from Bowery days to Garden nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Street
al Smith
Murphy
Sullivan
Joe
Bowery
Chuck Connors
Billy Welsh
Maisch
Pearl
Chinatown
Connors
John L
Welsh
Sam Harris
Terry McGovern
Terry
Pie Traynor Praises Dizzy Dean For Pirates Victory
The piece argues Dizzy Dean would lead the Pirates to pennants. It lists sports figures and rumors about managers, players, and minor trades, including Rabbit Warstler and Connie Mack, with commentary on Boston fans and league politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pie Traynor
Pirates
Dizzy Dean
Joe Louis
New York Boxing Commission
Rabbit Warstler
A's
Bees
Philadelphia
Connie Mack
Mack
Boston
Yawkey Bakery
Wally Berger
Larry Benton
Braves
Giants
Baltimore
Rudd Hoyle
Hun School
Princeton
Harvard
Cliff Melton
Yankees
Penn
New York State Athletic On
Jimmy’ Butwell
Ted Ochs
Wis
Newly Hatched Gulls Learn Fear of Man
Dr John Tait of McGill University told the Royal Society of Canada that newly hatched gulls learn fear from adults and cannot be tamed. A gull hatched early may grow up fearless if raised without exposure to humans.
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John Tait
McGill University
Montreal
Royal Society of Canada
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Edwin Balmer
Yale
Jed
Stuart
Koney
Johns Hopkins
Rochester
Minnesota
Jod
Mayon
Europe
Agnes Glenelth
Ned
Mercy Foundation
Dragons Drive
Edwin Selmer
Lights of New York
L. Stevenson
Eighth Avenue
Frank Buck
Buck
Bell Syndicste
Wnu Barvion
Poat
WNN
Humphreys
Westchester
California
Howard Jones
Berlin
Jimmy Wilson
Phillie
van Mungo
Diz
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