Salvation Army relief funds topped $261
More than 250 dollars were donated to the Salvation Army Christmas relief fund since yesterday. A friend loaned one hundred dollars, a major share of the total, with several names listed among Marion contributors. The total reported stands at 261.50 dollars as details of the fund flow appear in local notices.
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Eee Army
Marion
Eastern Star Womens’ Club
Order of Moose
George Jolliffe
H. W. Chadduck
E. M. Doll
A. B. Hilersdals
Marion Water
W. H. Evans
Ruby'g. Bonafield
Kiem
D. H. Warder
Water pressure monitoring system linked to central office
The device at the uptown plant transmits every half hour for two minutes to maintain proper water pressure. An employee tunes in on the reset to verify exact pressure, with wavelengths matching pressure levels and a signaling dial. The system was perfected by George Whysall, manager, and his son Charles C. Whysall, company chemist.
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George Whysall
Charles C. Whysall
Quadruplets birth amid Christmas joy in Silesia
Reuben Silesia December 27 four healthy baby girls born to Frau Derner wife of a municipal street railway bookkeeper. Each child weighs three pounds and joins a prior local quad birth trend noted around Oppelin. An alienist urges focus on mental hygiene and hints at murder trials as potential discussion.
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Reuben
Silesia
Frau Derner
Municipal Street Railway
Oppelin
Pearl Sullivan Queen of Crime Faces Fifteen Year Prison Term
Oklahoma tale recounts Pearl Sullivan known as Pearl Black who helped plan and drive a bank robbery that netted about $1,000. Dave Brown, a 19 year old accomplice, later confessed and testified, leading to Pearl's arrest and a 15 year penitentiary sentence. The saga centers on outlaw dreams, a lovers’ betrayal, and a dramatic courtroom reveal.
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J. C. Johnsen
Central Press
Herokee
Oklahoma
Pearl Sullivan
Pear Black
Pearl
Willie Newton
Rondout
Newton
Dave Brown
Brown
Brovin
Farmers’ Bank
Det. Okla
Mickey Colbert
Mickey
Goss
Dave
Trump
Sherif Goss
Kirkendall
The Blood Ship Ends Run at Opera House Tonight
Hobart Bosworth stars in the sea thriller The Blood Ship at the Opera House in Hobart. Jacqueline Logan and Richard Arlen co star in a brutal captain tale based on Norman Springer’s novel. A thrilling climax and strong supporting cast cap the final performance tonight.
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Columbia Pictures
Opera House
Hobart Bosworth
Jacqueline Logan
Richard Arlen
Paramount
New York City
Norman Springer
Miss Togan
Mr. Arlen
Teddy Bear Girls staged by Strand TELLY LEICH
The Strand presents the Teddy Bear Girls featuring Margie Wright and Teresa Shaefer with Joe Sterling Nat Bowen Billy Kingston Jack Childs and George Sullivan. A fast varied bill offers seventeen scene Smiles plus dramatic satire and farce with top numbers and a notable Teddy Bear chorus.
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Telly Leich
Teddy Bear Girls
Letcht
Margie Wright
Teresa Shaefer
Joe Sterling
Nat Bowen
Billy Kingston
Jack Childs
George Sullivan
Flashbulb items from around the world on aging, travel and tech
The clippings mix diverse notes from Asbury Park to New York and Alaska. A 95 year old man in a summer suit climbs a 50 foot railroad signal tower as a birthday exercise in New Jersey. A New York survey finds only 20 to 25 percent of elderly over 65 rely on charity, despite real hardship. Sylvester Poli in Turin sells theater interests for 30 million dollars, with many relatives ready to greet him. A Chicago professor says modern education makes children better spel ers, while Alaska's holiday mail runs on time thanks to a dog sled driver. Broadway notables mourn John Duston, longtime Jack's restaurant proprietor. Northerners buy homes by airplane, and a self energizing airplane prototype explodes injuring inventor J. L. No.
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New York
National Civic Federation
Five Persons Die in Home Fire Tragedy
In Youngstown on December 27 a kerosene stove exploded trapping a mother Letty Duffy aged 26 and her three children William six Harmon four and John Jr four months in a home. Their uncle William Duffy four died later in hospital and the father John Duffy Jr was out at a store buying ice cream.
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Youngstown
Letty Duffy
William
Harmon
John Jr
William Duffy
John Duffy, Jr
Many Barrooms Named After Col Lindbergh
Mexico City reports Col Lindbergh inspired a wave of taverns and soft drink parlors naming cocktails after him. Working-class patrons sample Lindbergh cocktails in crogshops and cafes, while ice cream shops adopt Lindbergh Pal branding in honor of the American ace.
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Mexico City
Col. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Lindy
Lindbergh Pal
Ace
Kipling Recalls Canadian Experience In Dinner Talk
London reports Rudyard Kipling spoke to 500 Canada Club guests recounting his lost trunk episode in the Dominion years ago. He described arriving by steamer to a place where pines and trees blocked shore access and how a marine superintendent searched but the trunk was never found.
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London
Rudeyard Kipling
Canada Club
Dominion
Place
Davis Will Preside at Jackson Day Festival
John W. Davis the 1924 Democratic presidential candidate will preside at the Jackson Day dinner on January 12 in Washington. Nearly 1,000 invitations were sent to national Democrats including governors, congressmen, and others. Expected attendees include Smith of New York, Rickie of Maryland, Reed of Missouri, Walsh of Montana, Dehaney of Ohio, and others named in 1928 presidential speculation.
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Washington
John W. Davis
Smith
New York
Ritchie
Maryland
Reed
Governor's Widow to Marry Back Bay Waiter
Mrs. Dorothy Woodman Parkhurst of Boston and Maine society has applied for a marriage license to wed Cyrus Dimitri Comninos, a young medical student and head waiter in a Back Bay cafe, noted as a descendant of Byzantine emperors.
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Dorothy Woodman Parkhurst
Boston
Frederick Hale Parkhurst
Maine
Back Bay Society
Cyrus Dimitri Comninos
Back Bay
Radio schedule fragment with distant program listings
A long OCR fragment shows radio station call letters, frequencies, and programs across multiple US cities with Eveready Hour Auction Bridge and orchestras listed. It then shifts to a World War II era note about a Japanese serialized story The Mountain Pass by Nakazato nan and a remark on publication turnover.
Plan to deepen Mississippi by riverbed digging proposed
Yakima engineer W G Price and famed designer Eads ally to present a river control scheme to Congress via the flood and Ways and Means committees. Price argues reforestation and reservoirs won’t regulate flood flow as rainfall is mostly in the lower basin, proposing pile dikes and revetments to deepen the current.
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Yakima
Wash
Mississippi
Congress
James Buchanan
Eads
W.G. Price
National Flood Commission
Ways and Means Committee
Price
Uinnes
Dangers of Aging and a Mississippi Dam Claim
The fragment warns that vital forces wane after age forty and elderly fall to colds that become pneumonia. It then shifts to a then-current claim about two dams on the Atchafalaya river forty years old, praising a Bulgarian Blood Tea product as a cure for colds and promising to fortify blood and resistance.
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Price
Atchafalaya
Mississippi
Gulf
Heath Guardian
Velvet fades in Paris fashion polls but endures in wraps
Paris fashion minds debate velvet's fate as a semi-success. High end houses still present velvet and many Paris women wear it, though general popularity lags behind silk and other fabrics. Velvet shines in evening wraps and formal afternoon dresses for bridge and tea wear.
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Hazel Reavis
Associated Press
Paris
Ada 15 Promised Good Sheep in Ottawa market boost
Ottawa- cooperative wool marketing sparks Alberta sales and cross border shipments. From one ranch Alberta 7000 sheep bought for distribution across Alberta and British Columbia ranges. Irrigated Medicine Hat area reports profitable shipments of crossbred sheep from Utah Idaho Montana and Wyoming. RED FOR EVENING Paris fashion stays bold with red craze ongoing as Princess Antoine Ribesca showcases red gorgette crepe gown with velvet sash and long draped skirt. Green velvet bolero dress and beaded blouse pair with a black satin afternoon dress opens down the front over white verrepe de chine.
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Ottawa
Canada
Alberta
British Colmbia
Medicine Hat
Paris
Antoine Ribesca
Oxford
Asquith
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H. C. Kirkendahl
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University of Chicago
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Jack
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Detroit
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Werbi Boston
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WGR
Buffalo
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Newark
WEAF
Eveready
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Alexander
KDKA
Pittsburgh
Orchestra Hour of
Continentals
WHAM
Rochester
Homesteaders
WGY Schnectady
Sealy Air Weavers
Eveready Hour
WBS
Springfield
Bostonians
MTAG
Worcester
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Atlanta
WDOD
Chattanooga
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WIHAS
Louisville
Selberling
Ames
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WSM
Nashville
Bridge Games Central
Chicago
Stromberg
Carlson
Orehietetra
Congress Carnival
Chicagera
Afr
Gamerito
Ford Aad Tenn
Stevens
WSAW
Cincinnati
TRO Orchestra
Wsat Cinetinati
WFAA
Dallas
Air Weavers
WOC
Davenport
Ryeready
Wox-Witt
Stromberg Carlsoh
General Motors Party
Red Apple Club
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Miyako
Bnyer
Itg
Nakazatonan
Mississippi River Commission
Lessens
Utah
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Radio Public
Max Rau
A.B. Lehner
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