Well-Dressed Dog Couture in Manhattan Shop
AP Newsfeatures writes about Canine Couturiere in Manhattan where Smudge the Houston owned dog wears a $1,000 wardrobe. The shop offers tuxedos, mink coats, perfumes and jeweled leads with fittings by appointment and mail order blurbs promising stylish, serviceable designs.
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Canine Couturiere
New York
Huchberg
Associated Press News
Debra Frye
Bambi
Houston
Tex
Will Rogers Remembered in Claremore Oklahoma
Claremore marked the 77th anniversary of Will Rogers birth with a Saturday ceremony after a Sunday plan. About 3,000 people and 29 high school bands gathered at the Will Rogers memorial as a wreath was placed by the Pocahontas club. Rogers and Wiley Post died in a 1935 Alaska plane crash near Point Barrow.
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Claremore
Okla
Will Rogers
Oklahoma
Pocahontas Club
Rogers
Wiley Post
Point Barrow
Alaska
Forty Plus Clubs Rally to Aid of Middle Aged Unemployed Exec
Washington reports on the Forty Plus clubs forming a national conference to aid executives over 40 facing job loss. Henry Carter of Alexandria outlines aims to connect with government and foundations, study aging employment trends, and expand reemployment opportunities amid mergers, pensions, and longer lifespans.
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United States
Washington
Boston
Henry Carter
Alexandria
New National Office
Ford Foundation
Carter
Oldsters
Faith Hope and Skill Save Small Town in Tennessee
In Sherwood Tennessee residents rally to reopen a limestone plant inspired by Father Joseph Huske and Epiphany Mission. The plan includes a shirt factory training 95 seamstresses with a $50 000 bond issue at 13 percent interest. Early payroll estimates amount to 56000 yearly, rising to 374000 as employment grows.
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Faith
Sherwood, Tenn
Tennessee
Cumberland Mountains
Father Huske
Sherwood
Epiphany Mission
Epiphan Mission
Joseph Huske
Epiphany Corporation
Fathrex Huske
Well Equipped War Thief Strikes Guard's Vehicle
In Lexington Kentucky a thief entered a national guardsman's car while he was in a restaurant and took items including an entrenching tool mess gear a steel helmet and liner and a full field pack.
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Lexington
Mining Company To Resume Work In Comstock Lode
A Consolidated Virginia Mining Company plan to reopen the Comstock Lode in Nevada is announced as a multi million dollar project using modern methods to tap low grade ore. The Comstock, discovered in 1859, fueled fortunes and mining towns including Virginia City and cast a long financial shadow on 19th century markets.
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Comstock Lode
Washington
Nevada
Comstock
San Francisco
California
National Geographic Society
Virginia City
Consolidated Virginia Mining Company
Deaths and Disappearances in Silver Mine Quest
In 1857 Grosh and companion headed to Grass Valley California to share ore assays and seek backing for a mine. A pack burro was lost, storms and hunger followed, Grosh hid maps, and he died after revealing the lode name before death. Bucke survived but no location was found. Henry Comstock later claimed knowledge of the vein.
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Grass Valley
Calif
Grosh
Richard M. Bucke
Henry Comstock
Nevada
Finney
Comstock
Negro Pastor Leads All White Church In Old Mystic
The Rev. Simon Peter Montgomery becomes the first Negro pastor of an all white Methodist church in Old Mystic Connecticut. He reports a warm, welcoming reception from a 200-member congregation and says faith and prayer powered his ascent from poverty to degrees at Boston University.
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Toi Ross
Old Mystic
Conn
INS
Simon Peter Montgomery
Old Mystic Methodist Church
South Carolina
Montgomery
Boston University
Supreme Court
South
North
Drinks permit granted for temperance league dinner
Magistrates in Portsmouth granted a license allowing drinks after hours at the annual dinner dance of the Hampshire County Temperance League in Portsmouth England.
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Portsmouth
England
Hampshire County Temperance League
Quite a Story How Comstock Lode Was Named
LAST CHANCE California AP recounts the Comstock Lode origin tale focusing on Ethan Allen Grosh who died broke in 1857 and is argued by some historians to have first recognized Nevada’s famed silver vein. Historians debate whether Grosh or James Finney first identified the lode. Grosh died in a mining shack after attempting to cross the Sierra.
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Last Chance
Calif
Sierra
Ethan Allen Grosh
Grosh
Nevada
Comstock Lode
History
James “Old Virginny” Finney
Comstock
Pennsylvania
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Sis
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Philadelphia
Chi
Cago
Los Angeles
Buffalo
G. F. Clark
Krebs
First Avenue
Modjeska
Joe Jefferson
Buffalo Bill
Lotta Crabtree
Edwin Booth
Colt
Lakes
Killarney
George Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
National Safety Council
Teetotalers
Zellone
Empire
Moses Beltone
Third Avenue
Secedar Rapids
Iowa
Ernest Kosek
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
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