Violin maker Tony Wons plans comeback on radio
The soft voiced kilocycle philosopher Tony Wons returns to broadcasting in October with a 15 minute scrap book program thrice weekly. He has crafted 14 violins in Chicago over the winter and will feature them on air to prove new violins can rival old masters. He hopes to give instruments to promising musicians and will discuss his search for happiness with listeners.
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Court clerks urge return to home amid radio plea
A fragmented note describes a standing offer to wire money for a woman to come home after she left to pursue music. The passage recalls her departure, a court clerk audience, and the lingering promise with the radio purchase referenced. The tone hints at pursuit and a domestic dispute context.
Radio Shorts Bring England to CBS With Two Plays
Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop will produce two short wave drama programs for CBS to relay from England next month. The first, Sept 12, adapts Hilaire Belloc's Marie Antoinette, with Val Gielgud assisting Reis. A week later, Reis directs Abbey Players in Riders to the Sea from Dublin.
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England
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Marie Antoinette
Hollywood bill previews Hundred Men and a Girl cast
Singing star Leopold Stokowski will preview their latest film on the August 27 Hollywood Hotel bill. Joe Penner returns to the air October 1 with practically the same cast as last season. The exception is singer Joy Hodges who has other radio commitments.
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Leopold Stokowski
U. S. Milk Products Rate In First Eight
Berlin August 24 United States with entries from eleven states placed among the first eight countries in the cold store age butter division of the international milk products exposition. State ratings were not announced. Countries listed alphabetically included Austria Denmark Estonia Finland Germany the Netherlands Norway and the United States.
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Iowa
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Montana
Tennessee
South Dakota
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Kansas
California
Austria
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Estonian
Finland
Germany
Netherlands
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Supplement S D irrigation loans in South Dakota
Washington August 24 VP The Re settlement Administration advised Representative Francis Case of Custer South Dakota of a 25900 allocation for supplemental irrigation loans. The funds will aid South Dakota farmers or ranchers to drill wells or build small dams for supplemental irrigation, enabling up to fifty demonstration projects across the state.
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Francis Case
Custer
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Aged Alpena resident Lydia Yerxe dies at home
Mrs. Lydia Yerxe, an elderly resident living about a mile and a half east of Alpena, died early Monday at her home. Her husband had passed away years ago.
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Rifle Team Members Head to Camp Perry Matches
Aug 24 special service notes R. B. Cook and A. J. Seidschlaw depart Alpena Saturday for Camp Perry Ohio to compete in national title matches from Aug 22 to Sept 11 as members of the South Dakota civilian rifle team.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
South Dakota
Graveling Progress on Highway 14 Cutoff Blunt to Pierre
Graveling of the cut off on highway 14 between Blunt and Pierre is well started with prospects for completion this fall.
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Blunt
Highway 14
Pierre
Hedberg Named Head Of SDU Mathematics Department
Vermillion August 24 Ernest Hedberg has been elected head of the mathematics department at the University of South Dakota succeeding H Lane who resigned to take a similar post at Hendrix College Conway Arkansas Hedberg earned a BS from Missouri State Teachers College and MA and PhD from the University of Missouri His career includes teaching in Missouri rural and high schools then Wentworth Military Academy Lexington Missouri later leading mathematics at State Teachers College Livingston Ala and at Lander College Greenwood South Carolina He is a member of several honorary learned societies.
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Conwey
Ark
Missouri State Teachers’ College
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Ala
Lander College
Greenwood
South Carolina
Local Scholastic Groups Named in State News
Sigma 1, Pi Mu Epsilon, Kappa Delta Pi, American Mathematical Society, and the South Carolina Academy of Science are listed among prominent academic and scientific organizations mentioned in the report.
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Pi Mu Epsilon
Kappa Delta Pi
American Mathematical Society
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South Carolina Academy of Science
English courtiers receive bequests in Duchess of Bedford will
Two British men who befriended the Duchess of Bedford during a ten week stay in an Iraq oil field receive $10,000 each from her will. The duchess vanished after a 1923 crash while flying from Woodburn to India. The estate totals £355,779 or about $1,778,996. Parkyn and Gauss, both Anglo-Persian Oil Company employees, hosted the duchess and co pilot before the desert crash. Gauss received the other $10,090.
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lWoburn
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England
Parkyn
N. Gass
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
India
Gauss
Services Held For Faulkton Man
Charles HL Stalker, 59, died Sunday afternoon at the local hospital. An old-time Faulkton resident who came from Marshalltown, he was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge which will conduct funeral services Tuesday at 3 PM. Burial will be in the local cemetery. He is survived by one brother, O J Stalker of Los Angeles.
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Faulktion
Charles HL Stalker
Stalker
Fawkton
Marishalltown
Odd Fellows Lodge
O. J. Stalker
Los Angeles
Calif
Teacher Changes At Sunny View And Beth Eden Schools
Miss Helen Jeffries formerly of Pierre now residing in De Smet has been elected to teach Sunny View school. Miss Lucille Adams who taught Sunny View last year is engaged to teach Beth Eden school.
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Helen Jeffries
Pierre
de Smet
Sunny View
Lucille Adams
Beth Eden
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