Six Applicants Seek the Wealthy Wife in Lexington
A Lexington woman offered $10,000 for a husband prompting six applicants. Among them an Arkansas justice of the peace volunteered to perform the ceremony. Replies came from Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Rhode Island and Massachusetts with varied motives and desires to meet the Kentucky woman. The Arkansas official appeared most sincere expressing interest in the match and Kentucky charm.
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Lexington
Ity
Arksases Justice of the Peace
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Ker
Judge Says Outsiders Dictated Wall Street Strike
A Special Sessions Court judge said outsiders participated in the New York Stock Exchange strike under orders dictated by a foreign government. John Flynn, 22, was sentenced on a third degree assault charge with a one year suspended term and three years probation.
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New York
Special
New York Stock Exchange
Frederick L. Hackenburg
AFL
Seafar Era International Union
John Flynn
Wall Street
Flynn
Seafarers Union
AFL United Financial Emoployer
Exchange
Hackenburg
United States
Moscow
Escaped circus lion terrorizes motorists in Pennsylvania
Capt. Andrew J. Hudock of the state police reported an escaped circus lion roamed Western Pennsylvania for five hours, menacing motorists before it was finally contained.
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Western
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Andrew J. Hudock
Lions Escape After Circus Truck Crash Near Laurelville
Four circus lions broke loose when a truck carrying the Tom Pack Shrine and Police Wild Animal circus overturned near Laurelville Pennsylvania. Leo the MGM lion roamed the countryside for hours before being captured eight miles from the crash without incident. Police and circus workers corralled Leo as motorists were startled and game wardens joined the hunt. Leo was under MGM contract officials said.
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Leo
MGM Motion Pictures
Laurelville
Pennsylvania Mountains
Tom Pack Shrine
Wild Animal Circus
Liberty
MGM
British deny selling jet equipment to Russia a mistake
Assistant Secretary of Commerce David K. E. Bruce told the House appropriations committee that Britain made a strong personal impression it erred in selling jet equipment to Russia. He qualified that he did not know whether the jet apparatus was a mistake.
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Washington
Russia
David K. E. Bruce
House Appropriations Committee
Bruce
Monkey Business Does Well in Berlin
In postwar Berlin the sole organ grinder with a monkey earns a steady living. His best market is the American sector where bread and chocolates are plentiful. The organizer notes the monkey is a real breadwinner on the end of his string.
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AMG
Harry L. Franklin
Berlin
Franklin
Swope Refuses British Medal Over Palestine Policy
New York June 3 Gerard Swope honorary president of General Electric rejected a British government medal after criticizing its Palestine stance. He told Sir Oliver Franks the non constructiveness of the government’s position left him without respect. He declined to attend Washington for the Order of the British Empire presentation citing vacillating policy.
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New York
INS
Gerard Swope
General Electric Co
Palestine
Swope
Oliver Franks
United States
Washington
England
British Empire
Winston Churchill
United Nations
Walter Schmitz
Monkey
Schmitz
Hirsi Newspaper Foreign Language In the B. L.
A fragment notes Hirsi related to a newspaper in a foreign language connected to the B. L. context. The readable portion does not specify dates or clear names beyond Hirsi and a language reference.
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Hirsi
B. L
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Leest
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Jets
Sroom Outfit
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Philadelphia Zeitung
Benjamin Franklin
CAP Gov
Sterling
Homer Laughlin
China
Wm. Rogers
America
Gardenia
O.K
Jewelers
Capitol ST
Dormeyer
Ronson
Spartus
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