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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1940
Page
4
A look back at political and social figures from the era. The piece lists Democratic rally speakers including Congressmen, ex mayors, assessors and local leaders, notes candidates like Ex-Alderman Jas F Black, and recalls local residents, funerals, and social clubs with brief biographical sketches and anecdotes.
PURC official and state representative candidate Hillis, known as Chic, proposed for county commissioner to bring business experience to county government. Proponent argues youth and practical judgment would reduce costs and modernize administration.
The Story of Dr Ehrlichs Magic Bullet a new Warner Brothers film starring Edward G Robinson opens Thursday at the Metropolitan with co feature Granny Get Your Gun led by May Robson Margot Stevenson and Hardie Albright The Bullet tale centers on Dr Paul Ehrlich Ruth Gordon is described as the doctors wife Other cast includes Otto Kruger Donald Crisp Maria Ouspenskaya Montagu Love Sig Eumann Donald Meel Henry ONeil Albert Basserman and Louis Calhern. Granny Get Your Gun is set in Nevada where ghostly remnants of the old gold rush haunt a grubstaker and a comely elder dame played by May Robson.
A collection of brief notes mentions Putnam Square funeral director Dave Corcoran recalling politics around 1900 as an alderman, Harvard Trust Co. treasurer Arthur Wright eyeing an early trout season, and local figure Bill Hennessy with memories of Cambridge before the subway era. D A Bob Bradford plans to share secrets with the Chamber of Commerce while WHDH radio host Jim Donovan is praised for sharp sports quizzes. The piece notes early Massachusetts soil conservation ideas from 1739 restricting livestock on meadow land near Truro to Provincetown to protect dune grasses.
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