Mississippi Won’t Discourage Hasty Alabama Marriages
Mobile AP reports Mississippi officials urged stronger enforcement of marriage laws and tougher restrictions after Mobile County courts filled with Mississippi weddings that end in divorce or annulment. They cited cases where grounds included drunkenness or underage brides and noted Mississippi’s lax age and character requirements.
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Mississippi
Alabama
Mobile
Carl M. Booth
Fielding Wright
Missisippi
Booth
Wright
oBoth
Freckle Tales From Hal Boyles Witty Column
Hal Boyle writes from New York about a playful imagined tale of borrowing a freckle from a five year old and the comic dilemma of returning it to a imaginative child. Readers coast to coast respond with light humor and ideas.
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New York
Case of the Purloined Freckle Lights the Way
Reader letters reveal wild ideas to replace a missing freckle on a little girl. Suggestions range from fairies to chocolate bars and painted noses, but a 13 year old Portland girl finally solves the case by sending real freckles in a cello bag. The girl gratefully accepts, joking that the freckles rusted in rain and must be kept safe.
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Rosemary Sprague
Cleveland Heights
Jennie M. Barholm
Fitchburg
Mass
Burlington
Rose Emerson
Bronx
New York City
Carlene White
Portland
Carlene
Geneva Lions Club Minstrel at Geneva High School
Geneva Lions Club presents a three act minstrel show at Geneva High School on Friday directed by Rev. R. L. Holmes pastor of First Baptist Church of Geneva Local talent performs in the first community project of the newly formed Lions Club Proceeds aid improvements to Geneva educational facilities.
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Geneva High School
Geneva Lions Club
R. L. Holmes
First Baptist Church of
Lions Club
Fortune Teller, Count Die, and Painter’s Fake Marriage
A paint magnate hides a murderous plot to end his mistress Irene. In Europe she and her lover scheme a counterfeit marriage with a Monaco style count. A Paris fortune teller foretells doom. the ruse collapses when the couple returns to New York and extracts $250,000 from the husband to keep the affair quiet.
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Harvey Bronson
Irene
Damon Runyon
Harvey
Europe
Michel
Gregor Michel
Count Michel
America
Grecor
Geneva
Gregor
Gregory
New York
Billy Rose
Batt draws Civil War comparison to Europe and South recovery
William L. Batt, Philadelphia business leader and former War Production Board official, told Birmingham Rotary Club that Europe resembles the postwar South. He noted there was no Marshall Plan in 1865 and that some Southern areas took as long as 80 years to recover from the war and ensuing chaos. He spoke in a prepared address outlined for delivery.
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Birmingham
William L. Batt
Philadelphia
Europe
South
Rotary Club
Batt
S-K-F Industries
War Production Board
Marshall Plan aims to rebuild Europe and curb Communism
The speaker argues for the European Recovery Program to restart European production within four years, claiming it will end war risks and allow normal living. He asserts the plan merits beyond charity, enabling Europe to buy and sell as before and demonstrating that prosperity stifles Communism, citing France and Italy’s political resilience stirred by the plan’s announcement.
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Batt
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Italy
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