Roosevelt Strong in Farm Belt
Corry Evening Journal reports strong Roosevelt support in the farm belt after Nebraska and Illinois primaries. He won about two to one in Nebraska and received a large complimentary vote in Illinois, signaling growing Democratic strength in agricultural regions west of the Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Middlewest
Nebraska
Illinois
Enire
Mississippi
American Liberty League
America
Buncombe
Sia Lot Q
Honesty at School Spotlight on plagiarism in Missouri case
An 18-year-old Missouri high school senior won a $5,000 Eddie Cantor scholarship by copying a magazine article word for word. He admitted the deception, saying he did not know what plagiarism was, prompting a discussion on integrity, education, and the duty of schools to teach honest work from early schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Eddie Cantor
Athools
Expeditious Courts Stir Debate Over Delays
A fragmentary 19th century note laments speedy yet strained court efficiency. It cites a judge postponing a case to Belgium for ten days, while others clean up in hours, and London judges finishing trials in minutes, reflecting tensions between pace and due process in a busy judiciary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uto Tomy
Belgium
London
Road to Glory brings authentic war era sets to life
Hans Peters, a 20 year Hollywood set designer, recalls his path from Hamburg to Los Angeles after World War I. He explains how wartime memory informs his authentic period details for The Road to Glory, including a reshaped farmhouse scene and a hospital set with crude props.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Hans Peters
Motion Picture Company
Peters
University of
Hamburg
Téth
Contrasting British and American Courts in Attitudes to Trials
The writer notes Libivants often die before trial and compares British and American systems. In Britain lawyers are given to oratory and appeals, while judges are businesslike, controlling lawyers, cutting to the core of cases, and denying delays. The piece highlights procedural differences and judicial efficiency.
Paris Gown Styles Vary In Evening Fashion Notes
Paris styles reveal varied evening gown lengths from knee to floor with many dresses showing split fronts and exposed knees or legs. Robert Piguet favors knee fitted skirts flaring to full hems. Schiaparelli uses rustling petticoats and frilled trims. Patou features split skirts and sheer panels revealing legs in black gowns.
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Paris
Robert Piguet
Schiaparelli
Patou
STAR SIGNALS April 17 birthday guidance and warnings
The message outlines astrological style tips for those born Feb 20 to Mar 20, with Morning Bail and Afternoon Very good indications and an Evening Fair. It notes November 1928 as advantageous, warns against rash actions, and suggests social expansion, new clothes, and seeking favor from May 1 to 4.
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Lee
Maroh
The Life and Letters of John Galsworthy reviewed
The Forsyte Saga author John Galsworthy is examined in a published authorized biography by HH Vy. The book blends Galsworthy’s letters with those of family and friends to chart his privileged England upbringing, witty era honors, and the personal passion that influenced the novelist’s critique of property and marriage.
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Probaly
John Galsworthy
HH. VY
Marval
Galsworthy
England
Bool
Pisin
Fegders Chinno
Twenty Years Ago Journal Files April 16 1919
A fragment from the Journal Files dated April 16 1919 recalls a horsewoman prize at Grassgilly event with Mrs Fuck and Nowell noted as a great grandmother among the participants. The text mentions a 71 year old rider and a spell prize awarded during the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydnet
Fuck and
Nowell
Ony Ie
Corry town notes mix of bids, bets, and busy plans
Corry page items reveal the Brick House sale to the Elmers and Carrier Post for 5000 dollars with later improvements. Local investigators watch minors at a northside beer parlor while a PWA inspector checks a Vocational School project deemed abandoned weeks ago. Teachers smoke secretly, a storm may begin construction, and the Corry Hotel Co plans an early public announcement. Olive Mason decks a sparkler from Montgomery Ward as Karl Morrie-ser leads county WPA archaeology efforts. A new fire truck may arrive by June 15, trout streams flow quietly, and the junior senior prom looms. The Cobett-Wojciechowski wedding approaches, police note puttees, and a Kiwanis roll leads to Ray Perkins show. Sensational murder case hints surface, Sedria McCall eyed for Adrian College coaching, Beaver Dam project bids loom, salary cuts threaten staff, and nurse incident is whispered. Rex seating fills, 1036-87 school budget display draws interest, and a Socony-Vacuum station near World Center Street faces June 1 shutdown as Lisbon to Greece travelers report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmers, Carrier Post
America Legion
Special County
PWA
Corry Hotel Company
Olive Mason
Monttgomery-Ward
Doc Graham
Kiwanis Wand
Horace Brynolfsom
Corry
New Yorke
Ray Perkins
Curley Williams
Ray Greene
Lake Karwegama
Brook
Lakers
Ontario
Fishpole Point
Sedria McCall
Adrian College
Dale Sprankle
Albion College
Brown
Golden Rule Club
John Limbing
Board of Education
Hemielves
Q. H. Geiger
Legal Fonn
World Center Street
Chriss Dallas
T Hem
Lisbon
Portugal
Graese
Ritz Restaurant owner plans trip for long journey to New York
James Zafiropulos of the Ritz Restaurant in Uniah City plans a visit to his home country and will leave early next week for New York on the first leg of a long journey. Local women express relief at this closing scrib.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Zafiropulos
Ritz
Uniah City
New York
Hundred-dollar bill dropped in church collection plate
A $100 bill was placed into the collection plate at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Cruz California. The note sparked hopes that gold-backed currency might someday circulate again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Cruze
Cal
First Presbyterian Church
Two Auto Thieves Captured by Erie Police
Air April 16. A police chase early Wednesday ended with the capture of two auto thieves at 2 am at 26th and Peach streets by Patrolman Don McCurdy. Police link the pair to at least four auto thefts and a robbery of an airport near Rochester, New York. They are jailed in Erie as Morris Marlowe 16 and Ralph Aeliis 17, both of Rochester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peach Streets
Don McCurdy
Rochester
N. Y
Morris Marlowe
Ralph Aeliis
N.Y
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