Older Workers Now Included in Social Security Rules
The Social Security board moves to launch the old age insurance system next month and may reclaim up to 9 million dollars from 178,000 beneficiaries who received lump sum settlements between 1937 and 1939. Congress changed the act last summer allowing these workers born before 1900 to rejoin and seek monthly benefits. Live claims total nearly 9.93 million dollars out of 24.996 million in lump sums. the rest were death claims. repayments will be deducted from future monthly benefits.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Congress
Social Security
Russians Mass on Front In Heavy Fighting Across Eastern Front
The report describes severe battles on the eastern front with Tolvajarvi and Loimula areas, claiming enemy losses and captures including 27 machine guns 25 express rifles and 13 machine pistols. Finnish air force conducted recon flights and bombed enemy columns while a German freighter Bollheim was sunk by a submarine near Mantyluoto.
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Tolvajarvi
Loimula
Gulf of Bothnia
Mantyluoto
Finland
Moscow
Leningrad
U.S. Increases Air Defenses and wartime hospital claims
The note states churches at Leningrad were converted into military hospitals. It records secured and preferred claims totaling 1,165,118.94 dollars with a discharge of 84,118.42 dollars. The Private Farmers Bank of Pendleton at Franklin shows a December 30, 1931 closure with 65 percent total claims and a December 20 date for a five percent rate on 19,800 dollars.
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Farmers Bank of Pendleton
Pranklin
Bank Closures and Payouts Listed for Several Institutions
The notice itemizes bank closures with dates and recovery percentages. Farmers Bank of Clarksburg closed December 20 with five percent or 27,250 totaling 95 percent. People's Exchange Bank of Charleston closed December 16 with five percent or 11,600.29 totaling 75 percent. Charleston Trust Company closed December 15 with five percent or 40,463.49 totaling 40 percent. Huntington Banking and Trust Company closed December 15 with ten percent.
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LoMadded
Rom
Farmers Bank of
Clarksburg
People's Exchange Bank of Charleston
Charleston Trust Company
Huntington Banking and Trust Company
New Syphilis Treatment Shows Digestive Penetration Promise
The report notes researchers in the botany department and associates found a bismuth compound could avoid digestion and pass into the food stream after oral intake. This penetration may reach and harm the body's organs, aiding the spread of syphilis.
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Espionage Agent Opens at Strand Theatre as War Warnin g
The Strand Theatre presents Espionage Agent, a Warner Bros film finished before World War I I, forecasting modern sabotage by foreign agents in the United States. It portrays a neutral nation prey to espionage and urges prompt congressional action to create designated ant i espionage powers. The plot centers on a young woman drawn into a spy ring and a career diplomat’s marriage.
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Warner Bros
United States
Congress
Ken Maynard in Smoking Guns at Opera House Tonight
Ken Maynard stars in Universal Pictures western Smoking Guns booked at Opera House tonight. A fugitive charged with murder battles a Texas Ranger, crocodiles, and a band of outlaws while Tarzan the horse speeds through gunfights. He wins the heart of Alice Adams as Gloria Shea.
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Ken Maynard
Walter Miller
Ken
Tarzan
Universal Pictures
Opera House
Maynard
Alice Adams
Gloria Shea
Karloff’s Movie Roles Don’t Frighten Children
Boris Karloff is a quiet English gentleman off screen and refuses vicious roles on screen. While appearing in Monogram’s Mr. Wong in Chinatown at the Opera House, he emphasizes human sympathy in his characters to avoid frightening children.
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Boris Karloff
Karloff
Monogram
Mr. Wong
Chinatown
Opera House
Karloff’s Monster Portrayal Earns Lasting Sympathy
The article praises Boris Karloff for his iconic Monster in Prankenstein, noting his humane portrayal that makes the character a misunderstood force. It argues his method earns audience sympathy and rebuts claims he scares children.
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Iudijence
Karloff
Bizarre Miracles for Sale At Dixie Theatre
A Tod Browning mystery thriller plays at the Dixie featuring spooks and illusionists. Detective work by Master Magician and Florence Rice unfolds as a demonologist is murdered behind locked doors and a magician is also slain amid a crowded theater magic show.
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Dixie
Tod Browning
Dixie Theatre
Robert Young
Florence Rice
Young
Miss Rice
Frank Craven
New York
Henry Hull
Dr Sab batt stalks the mind reader in London stage cast
Lee Bowman appears as the mind reader and Frederic Warlock, famed London and New York star, performs as the uncanny Dr Sab batt. The cast also includes Cliff Clark Astrid Alwyn Walter Kingsford Gloria Holden and William Demarest in supporting roles.
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Lee Bowman
Frederic Warlock
London
New York
Dr. Sabbatt
Cliff Clark
Astrid Alwyn
Walter Kingsford
Gloria Holden
William Demarest
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Howe
Grafton. Drug and Chemical Company
U.S
212Th Coast Artillery
New York City
Fort Tilden
Strand Theatre
Strand
Smoking Guns
Ann Sheridan
Raria
Carter
Solitare
Bulova
Lady Bulova
Dolly Madison
Waltham
Bowdoin
Elgin
Hamilton
Lenrus
Lord Signet
Rittal
Dresser
Heft Supreme
Skaggs & CO
W. Main St
Chih
Hesterfields
Tosacco Co
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