Banker Santa Claus Delights Sioux City Prisons
Ed T. Kearney real estate man and banker kept the identity of his Christmas anonymous giving as Mickey Finn to prisoners and missions. Letters with clues circulated and a 1930 note hints at his gift scheme. Kearney confessed as Mickey Finn during a Sioux City hospital stay, revealed after his death in 1937.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Santa Claus
Ed T. Kearney
Yuletide
Mickey Finn
Kearney
Cook County
Til
Mr. Kearney
Jackson
Neb
British Press Notes U S Rebuke to Germany
London dispatch reports that British press highlight the United States rebuke to Germany while the foreign office avoids comment on strains in German American relations.
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London
United States
Germany
Foreign Office
Senate expands probe into WPA activity in Tennessee Kentucky
The Senate campaign expenditures committee planned a special section of its report to cover charges of WPA political activity in Tennessee and Kentucky as part of its ongoing investigation.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Senate
Tennessee
Kentucky
Leaders with bushy brows Garner Bankhead profile
Washington December feature contrasts Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead. It notes their bushy eyebrows and shared traits: landowning roots, fishing hobbies, simple tastes, political shrewdness, and light political theatrics. It mentions Garner's Texas land, Bankhead in Alabama, and their families.
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Eddy Gilmore Washington
John W. Garner
Senate
William B. Bankhead
House
Garner
Bankhead
Texas
Alabama
Washington
Dreas
Honorable
Order of American Turkey Carvers
Fadi
Late Yuletide Observed By Orthodox Christians
Conforming to the Julian calendar thousands of Americans will not celebrate Christmas until January 7, 14 days behind the Gregorian calendar. Russians Serbians Armenians Bulgarians Syrians and Macedonians followers of the Orthodox church observe this. Greeks and Romanians also Orthodox mark Christmas on the Gregorian calendar but observe Easter Sunday with Julian observance.
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Turner
Coal & Grain Co
Checkerboard
Moulton Street
Tfhornhill
Insurance Agency
Santa
Chicagoil
Kandy
tRewLy
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J. L. Shumake
H. M. Haynes
Mack Buchanan
Joe Henderson
Eason N. Shumake
George C. Clark
Lonnie M. Black
Lonnie ‘Pettey
A. W. Billions
Johnson
Claudie H. Shumaker
H. Bentley
Carl Conley
Washington Ball Park
Funeral. Co
E. L. Drinkard, Pres
Drinkard Burial and Insurance Co., Inc
Johnston St
Decatur
Cooper, Wells & Co
Hacia
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