Orphir Prepares for Lusitania Salvage Season
The Orphir steams toward Glasgow after leaving Kinsale with fog sirens and liners greeting the voyage. It moves to winter quarters in Glasgow to resume salvage work on the Lusitania, planning to return next spring with extra equipment to raise treasure from the Lusitania’s strong-room.
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Unites Fealite
Gilbert McAllister
Orphir
Clyde
Kinsale
Globe
Greenock
Fort Matilda
Orphin
Glasgow
Ellen Manners Column On Gossip and Elusive Friendship
Ellen Manner s advice column explores how a gossiping character drains others joy and leaves few friends while readers share letters about aging loneliness and heartbreak. Answers urge practical optimism and light humor to cope with social snubs and failed romances.
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Mary Manners
Ellen
Miss Manners
Seekn Stars By Feg Mukray From Mormon Danish Immigrant
A 1935 profile traces Feg Mukray born in Utah in 184 to direct The Covered Wagon the greatest film of his career. Once a whaler, ship roustabout and waiter he rose to fame with a salary of 1000. He starred in early serials.
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Utah
Kang Features Syndicate, Inc
Great Britain
Secret Plot of a French Leader Threatens Yacht Strike
On a Mediterranean yacht vacation 26 year old American MWarner Wildburn becomes entwined in a dangerous intrigue. Louise de Fantanay helps him confront a looming political crisis tied to Edouard Mermillon and France’s fragile policy toward Germany. The romance with Lucienne de Montelimar complicates loyalties as danger nears.
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Mwarner Wildburn
Mediterranean
Europe
Louise de Fantanay
Mermillon
Baron de Brett
Chicotin
Wildburna
Lucienne de Montelimar
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Mermillon
France in peril threads of plots and power
General Perissol debates using knowledge to avert a crisis as financial and political pressures threaten France. Louise urges decisive action while they discuss De Brett and Mermillon and the looming possibility of a one man government. Raymond interrupts with news from Marseilles.
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France
Louise
Aigle Noir
Edouard Mermillon
Baron de Brett
Mermillon
Disraeli
de Brett
Perissol
Balzac
Paris
Raymond
Marseilles
Cannes
Monsieur Boyer
Theaters Show Wide Reel of Current Features
Iowa venues present revue Folies Bergeres with Streamline Express featuring Victor Jory and Evelyn Venable. Paramount offers It’s in the Air with Jack Benny and Una Merkel, while Charlie Chan in Shanghai stars Warner Oland and Irene Hervey. The Affair of Susan features Zasu Pitts and Hugh O’Connell. Palace shows The Irish in Us with James Cagney and Pat O’Brien and Society Doctor with Chester Morris Virginia Bruce. Rialto presents Kid Millions with Eddie Cantor and The Florentine Dagger with Margaret Lindsay Donald Woods. Olympic shows Life Begins at 40 starring Will Rogers and Death Flies at Sea with Conrad Nagel IEEE Rice.
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Iowa
Capetown to England Record Falls to British Flyers
Flying officer David L. Llewellyn and Mrs. Jill Wyndham landed in England at 3 35 p m Monday to break the Capetown to England record by 18 hours 48 minutes. The pair completed the flight in six days 12 hours 17 minutes surpassing Amy Mollison’s 1932 record.
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Hanworth
Middlesex
Eng
David L. Llewellyn
Jill Wyndham
Capetown
England
Llewellyn
Wyndham
Amy Mollison
Family Dinner Honors Mrs. Hamilton on 67th Birthday
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schoenthaler hosted a Sunday family dinner at their home in Elwood in honor of Mrs. May Hamilton celebrating her sixty seventh birthday. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hamilton and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Waggoner and family, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Svenksen and family, Harold Galloway and family, Mrs. John Galloway, Miss Arlene Nodurft, and Miss Eva Hamilton.
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Elwood
Ed Schoenthaler
Shower Honoring LaVerne Riley Before Her Marriage
Mrs H R Speer of Clinton and Elizabeth Riley hosted a miscellaneous shower Friday evening at the Riley home honoring LaVerne Riley on the eve of her marriage to Gerald Vogt.
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Grand Mound
Contests Honor Winners in Clinton Calamus Thanksgiving Day
Prizes were won in contests by Mrs. B. Walker of Clinton, Mrs. Albert Blake of Calamus and Miss Lucille Clarke of Clinton as Thanksgiving day events concluded with prize awards and local recognition.
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B. Walker
Clinton
Albert Blake
Calamus
Lucille Clarke
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