Climb to Fame Ended in Exhaustion and Death
Kansas City 1917 theatre review notes Lucille Chalfant the soprano who inspired crowds with Jenny Lind echoes. Her lifelong struggle to study sing and support a family culminated in suicide after failed near-glory, leaving two daughters and a fading legacy.
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Kansas City
Shubert
Lucille Chelfant
Bexlin
Anna Lind
Lucille Chalfant
Jenny Lind
Annie Lind
Lucille
Collins
Los Angeles
Pueblo
Colorado
Tenny Lind
Trey
Jennie Lind
Fred R. Huff
Mel Stay
Sipnert
New York
Venus
Cthera
Kolb
America
Europe
Board Of Trade To Fight Closing
Chicago board of trade vows to battle a federal closing order while weighing options. Officials cite possible 60 day lockout or allowing Farmers National Grain Corp to trade. Court appeals possible. wine payments tied to Updike Grain stock spark inquiry. Thatcher testimony links $0 stock sale to wine barrels.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Peter B. Carey
Hoover
Pet Farm Board
Hyde
Lamont
Mitchell
Board of Trade
Farmers National
Uplike Grain Company
F. J. Thatcher
Updike
C.E. Huff
George S. Milner
The
Grain Corporation
J. F. Florentine, Jr
Florentine
Thatcher
Milner
Believe Mellon Will Resign Post
The Daily Herald reports Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon is expected to resign when he returns to Washington. The move is tied to discussions that war debt negotiations should be handled by a younger official. British papers note Mellon’s return coincides with Sir Ronald Lindsay’s departure, fueling speculation.
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Mellon
London
The
Daily Herald
Andrew W. Mellon
Washington
United States
Hoover
the Herald
Ronald Lindsay
Herald
New York
Hold Two In Death Of Minneapolis Man
Two men were held by police after the death of Leonard Wahlstrom, a Minneapolis grocery clerk. Herbert Wahlstrom, store owner and Leonard's brother, and George H. Stromlis, a store clerk, were detained following a rear store shooting that left Wahlstrom fatally wounded by a 2 caliber rifle. Herbert claimed Leonard was shot during a struggle for the weapon, and that he and his brother were attempting to cope with the confrontation.
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Minneapolis
Leonard Wahlstrom
Wahlstrom
Herbert Wahlstrom
George H. Stromlis
Herbert
Leonard
Edison Artist Will Appear With Birch
Birch the famous magician brings a varied program to the College Gymnasium next Thursday evening. Mabel Sperry leads the assisting artists as a noted Edison tone fest performer and brilliant xylophonist with grand piano range.
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Mabel Sperry
Birch
College Gymnasium
Miss Sperry
Radio Features By C E Butterfield Time is Central Standard
NBC coast adds hour five nights weekly with San Francisco in rotation. Tonight WEAF-NBC features Harriet Lee and her boys at 5 45, Goldbergs, Gypsies Concert orchestra, Paul Whiteman at 9, plus Tito Guitar and Manhattan serenaders on WABC CBS. WJZ NBC offers Minstrel show at 7 30 and more. Tuesday’s schedule includes Toscanini fund concert and Ukulele Ike on WABC CBS, and Francis Craig orchestra on WIZ NBC with Rosa Low at 6 45.
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C. E. Butterfield
New York
Pacific Coast
NBC
San Francisco
Ture
WEAF
Harriet Lee
Her Boys
Goldbergs
Gypsies
Paul Whiteman
WABC
CBS
Tito
Manhattan Serenaders
Duchin
WJZ
Jack Denny
Frank J. Burague
WIM
Milwaukee
Sanderson
Crumit
Art Jarrett
Toscanini Fund
Isham Jones
WIZ
Francis Craig
Rosa Low
Peary's Craft New Prosaic Survey Boat
The Peary once a famed ocean adventurer has become a dull Lake Erie survey craft. Built 1918 as a minesweeper for France, its war record was cut short by the armistice. It later touched Greenland and the south seas in various expeditions before ending as a routine surveying vessel. Indiana bank robberies in 1932 totaled 37 convictions and 700 years of sentences.
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Sandusky
Peary
Lake Erie
Greenland
Richard Byrd
North Pole
W. H. Bramley
Cleveland
South Seas
Indiana
37 Nations Study Magnetism for International Polar Year
Washington reports plans for 37 nations to conduct magnetism research at 70 locations from August 1932 to August 1933. Automated instruments will trace earth currents with ground needles, wire loops, and radio beams, producing an unbroken global record of electrical behavior.
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Washington
Magnetic fields and sun radiation linked in Arctic research
Scientists outline a multi instrument plan to study earth magnetism its daily and hourly variations and possible connections to solar radiation. A fourth device will test a supposed link between magnetism and sun activity while dip circles use eye pieces insulated to prevent freezing.
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Earth
Arctic
Widow Wins Pension After TwentyFive Year Battle
Mary G Sutherland widow of a navy seaman won a federal pension after a 25 year fight dating back to 1907. She has received a lump sum and will receive about 30 dollars monthly going forward from the government. The lengthy battle ended with government approval of her survivor benefit.
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Napa, Cal
Mary G. Sutherland
Zionists oppose confiscation proposal in Prussian landtag
London report quotes Dr Nahum Sokolow president of the World Zionist Organization. He condemns a plan to confiscate Jewish property from eastern Europe as barbarism. He says Jews worldwide will protest and hopes civilized world protests can curb Hitler’s aims.
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London
Nahum Sokolow
World Zionist Organization
Landtag
Europe
United States
Sokelow
Hiileramr
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Berlin
University of Southern California
William McStay
Petvspaper Yan
Carey
Edison
Peary’s Craft
California
Honolulu
Quincy
Mass
F. B. Colton
Associated Press
Science
Japan
Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Rex Research
Childen
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