Greeting Card Industry Finds Fame In Sentiment Poems
New York July 12. Greeting card costs and lines drive an industry that sells 76 million dollars of cards yearly. Writers supply brief verses at 25 to 50 cents a line. only one percent of submissions are used. Editors read 100 to 200 sentiments per batch to discover a potential Edgar A. Guest. The trade features editorial offices outside New York with luxurious showrooms and canaries in the card rooms. Last year 117 died and 122 were injured in fires. year-end inspections numbered 1,294 with 100 orders issued.
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New York
Jpo
Anthony Maguire
Eddie Foy
J. E. McEvoy
Minneapolis
iIn
Stephen Shannon
Edgar A. Guest
Sweet Singer
Detroit
Yonkers
State fire losses show big decrease in West Virginia
West Virginia per capita fire loss last fiscal year was 1.78 dollars, down from 3.05 the prior year. The total fire loss dropped 43 percent to 3,164,991 dollars, with 942 fires reported, 253 fewer than 1927-28. Sound value and insurance figures fell from the previous year, and arson investigations rose with 28 indictments and 12 convictions. Casualties totaled 13, below 1927-28.
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Charleston
West Virginia
C. 0. Stahlmann
Overnight Telecast Sparks Mixed Global News
The broadcast notes Civer City-Mendell and Rein hart on air while Washington voices a tariff bill critique. A Florida confession reveals a 14000 robbery by Mrs. Vivian Ceraper. Senate opposition to Dem control cites Raskob and Tammany Hall. Bank president John Fouts faces arrest as examin ers seize three institutions. A Port Burwell repair is noted as Antin Bowler shows minor damage. Mussolini hosts a private dinner with Williams and Yancey to discuss flying. A sunken submarine salute by Rodney and destroyers is reported from Pembroke and Gillingham.
Eleven Boys Die In Dummy House Fire Drill
A fire drill tragedy in Tokyo reports eleven boys burned to death in a dummy house while trainees practiced extinguishing flames. Border tensions escalate as Tokyo and Soviet forces mass near the Chinese frontier amid rising regional clashes.
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Dummy House
Flashes of Life reports oddities and gossip from cities
AP items from New York, East Orange, Pittsburgh, Lynn, Elgin, and Scotland relay quirky news and casualties of heat. Features include Dr Darlington dressing bare at a Rotary lunch, Mayor Marten’s weather quirks, a taxi driver’s death, dust comparisons, Townsend’sfilm plans, Ramsay MacDonald’s golf club membership, Gladys Glad’s marriage to Mark Hellimer, and NYC twin counts.
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Associated Press
New York
Thomas Darlington
Presbyterian Elder
Tammany
Menin
Rotary
David Katz
Brooklyn
El Paso swept by deadly cloudburst floods
El Paso Texas surveys wreckage after a disastrous cloudburst hit an exclusive residential district. Damage estimated at a quarter million dollars as a wall of water carried boulders and wrecked homes, with adobe houses in the lowlands washed away and vehicles hurled into poles and buildings.
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el Paso
Texas
L ‘Ag
Broadway Stars Sought For All Talking Film Speak Easy
Fox Movietone brings the Rialto night life drama Speak Easy to the Strand for a midnight show. Director Benjamin Stoloff searched New York theatres to cast Lola Lane Paul Page and a host of Broadway veterans in lead roles including Henry B. Walthall Warren Hymer Sharon Lynn and Erville Anderson.
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Rial
Fox Movietone
Edward
Noblock
George Rosener
Strand Theatre
New York
Benjamin Stoloff
Gotham
Lola Lane
Paul Page
Speakeasy
Fox Movie Tonn
Page
Paul Martin
Allen Wooda
Henry B. Walthall
Big Min
Halen Ware
Broadway
Belasco
Frohman
Harris
Woods
Selwyn
Brady
Cannon Delmont
Warren Hymer
New Yorks
Hymer
Grey Fox
Sharon Lynn
Fox
N.ie
Martin
Massive illicit still captured in Blueville case
Officers report the most unique home-burner outfit seized in the area with an estimated 100 gallon copper boiler and numerous devices. A jug and smaller containers held liquid, while burnt sugar suggested a coloring process to imitate aged rye. Bigby faces arraignment for preliminary hearing after the raid.
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Of8cera
Wooddell
Bigby
M. D. Allender
Blueville
Magnate Moves to Undo Nuptial Bond
In Westchester County Court the Guggenheim family seeks to annul the secret marriage of Natalie Guggenheim to Thomas M. Gorman. Edmund A. Guggenheim, father of the bride, opposes the match. the couple wed April 6 and returned home a week later. The bride, 17, sailed with her parents for Europe May 25. Gorman, a Long Island real estate operator, planned a home at Sandpoint after the absence. The case, served over two months ago, names guardian at law John M. Holeworth.
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White Plaing
New York
Heim Gorman
Gugeenheim
Thomas M. Gorman
Long Island
Westchester County
John M. Holeworth
Gorman
Edward A. Gumgenheim
Guggenheims
Great Neck
L. I
New York American
Edmond A. Guggenheim
Natalie
Guggenheim
Guggenheim Cop
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Uggenheims
Europe
Sander Point
Weaver Gets. Coach Petersen Improvement Recommendation
A school board discussion notes another recommendation for improvements to be made by Coach Arch Petersen at the athletic department. The minutes show the board instructed Superintendent Rice to delegate Coach Petersen duties.
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Arch Petersen
State Briers and Drowning Reports in Wheeling and Charleston
Reports from Wheeling state briers and a drowned body recovered in Pipe Creek while Charleston notes Homer Bt nine drowns in Elk River. Levi J. Hi 90, a retired Baptist pastor, is also mentioned in the Charleston notice.
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Wheeling
Herald Derson
Pipe Creek
State Service” Legion Convention
Charleston
Homer
Elk River
Levi J. Hi
Eleven Boys Captinned from Page Ong
A fragmented report mentions Eleven Boys and a tragic fire in London last night at a dummy house cinema. The audience escaped with injuries to the operator and another, while an apparatus was in use to observe photographs.
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London
Dumy
Ham
Wolting
Pele
Bieant
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James C. Stone
Denman
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W. F. Schilling
Northfield
Minn
Gille Mk” Producers Association
Federal Fi Board
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Civer City
Mendell and Reinhart
Washington
Horah
Topeka
Vivian Ceraper
Simmons
Raskob
Tammany Hall
Jacksonville
Fla
John Fouts
Chicago
Antin
Fce
Port Burwell
Rome
Williams
Yancey
Mussolini
Duce
Pembroke
Wales
Rodney
Gillingham
Kent
England
Gus
Gussie
Jack Laps
Jwook
Adam
Tokyo
East Orange
N. J
Chas, H. Marten
Pittsburgh
New York City
Marchoness
Townsend
Lynn
Mass
Elgin
Scotland
Ramsay MacDonald
Moray
Gladys Glad
Ziegfeld
Mark Hellimer
Columist
New York Daily News
Mark
Calfornians
Reinhart
LW. Mandell
Culver City
Cal
Pines
Movietone
Magnate
Gentile
Mduatia
Frank Ry
Friedman
Wm. P. Samplapii
Grafton
Weaver
State Briers
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