Charleston Cow Record Stuns Police Chief and Public
Lt Arch Brown of Charleston traffic department gains praise for a May 1928 record with no cow fatalities. The piece recounts past carnage, jokes about cows and motorists, and Brown’s unusual method of “cooperation” with cows, including a caper involving a hidden cow and a disguise as a New York official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leutenant Arch Brown
Charleston
Brown
Mant Brown
Lieutel Bis Traffic Department
Lieutenant Brown
Coolidge
United States
Herbert Hoover
Rrong
Dan Prowse
Mead
Grover Whalen
Whalen
New York
Davis Creek
Okey Johnson
Old Man Heck Battles a Lion in Summer Parade
In a noisy Capitol Street scene the prominent citizens watch a parade pass by as Old Man Heck, famed for his fierce temper and ready wit, tangles with a lion in memory of John Robinson’s circus. Neighbors joke about neckties and a chaotic town pageant with locals like Lawyer Yauly Elk, Louie Searman, and D. Gates recalling past showmanship and the old oil exchange bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Wherte
Hin
Ol and Gas Exchange
Yauly Elk
Louie Searman
Duho Arter
Bithurne
Dolar Manbey
Fred Lackin
Harold Mathews
Capitol Street
Oil and Gas Exchange
Calliope
Jet
Burg
Saint Louie
Spitts
Vaulty Black
Louie Neateman
John Arter
John Robinson
Noah
John Winklec
John
Kangwey River
Shem
New York
Jim McFarland
Mons
Joe Wemris
Dibble
Ming
Fritz Alsamer
Howard Broith
Howard
Heck
Fritz
Alhus
Ian
Chawin
George
Harry Silverstein
Arry
Dark Duel and a Father’s Footloose Theory
Literary guidepost reviews Mar guerite Steen's Dark Duel with Lisa Hulcatt a modern designer amid a Bohemian London family. The piece traces Lisa's thwarted love for Val Taureaux and her defeat by Alice Amcott as Humbert’s career drive swallows the pair. Elsewhere Donald Ogden Stewart lampoons father child bonding proposing a “Movement” that pits a father against his son, joking of mill work and college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Kennedy
Marguerite Steen
Tessa
Miss Stean
Lisa Hulcatt
Lisa
London
Alice Amcott
Val Taureaux
Val
Paris
Elinor Glyn
Alice
Maurice Humbert
Humbert
Donald Ogden Stewart
Stewart
Ames Ogden Stewart
Forgetting the wedding memory in frontal bone cases
English medical lecture cites two men who forgot their marriages after skull injuries. They recalled past events but not their weddings. Public figures, from a star to a sultan and poets, weigh in with humorous or blunt reactions, highlighting disbelief and social views on memory and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Bernard Hollander
Mile
Casnovo de Monravo
Motion Preature
Maggie Dooley
Hackensack, N. J
Big Boy
Hollywood
Sultan
Sahara
Archie Vere de Vere
Vere de Vere
Vera Cattish
St. Paul's Cathedral
Mr. Vere de Vere
Archie Vere de Verence Cattish
Mayfair
Cuthbert Florence Rose
Sandy Machrihanish
Basham
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Joe Savage
Old Man
Red Hotlee
Henry Cato
D. Gates
Ewart
Big Ax
Jerry Mitchell
Industrial Locations Committee
Chamber of Commerce
McWhorter
Seckaterry Potter
Clifford McBride
Rink and
G. Mas
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