Local notes reflect illness, visits, and community updates
Mrs. Laura Chapman remains ill with heart disease. Jane Campbell of Chicago is critically ill and near death. Clyde Newton is sent to the state school for the feeble minded. Miss Lucile Glidewell will return to Elkhart to teach. The choir plans a Saturday practice at 1. Ex-treasurer Alva Lisby balances 1929 books. Miss Mildred Caviness visits Attica. Mrs. Garrett visits from Iowa City. Eva Milburn thanks the Junior Red Cross for a Christmas tree and gifts for hospital children. Fines totaled 57.59, with 953.85 in the last quarter of 1929.
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Eva Milburn
Red Croce
Show of Shows inspires Leo to seize film study
Leo seeks a career in pictures as he lands in the cast of Show of Shows through Harry Cronk. Queenie Quinn counsels him on mastering film craft, from acting confidence to the technical side, with lessons on timing, music, and production.
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Werner Bros. Pictures
Werner
Vitaphone Picture
Harry Cronk
Mottywood
Ken Hanton
Queenie Quinn
Warner Studio
Creenie
Bronze Blue
Leo
John Barrymore
Kid Silvers
Barrymore
Leery
Silvers
Queenie
Uou
Cronk
Musical contest invites Putnam county entrants at Purdue conference
County Agent Floyd W Miller announced a musical contest will open the Purdue Agricultural conference in Lafayette from January 13 to 17. Rural residents who are not professionals may enter with a chance to win part of a $200 prize pool. Musical numbers talking skits and dialogues are allowed. Entry cutoff is January 5. entrants should contact Mr Miller immediately to register.
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Floyd W. Miller
Putnam County
Purdue Agricultural Conference
Lafayette
Mr. Miller
Century club meets as winter visitors arrive in Fayetteville
The Century club gathers Saturday at 2:30 p m with Mrs W W Carson at 1012 South College Avenue Fayetteville Arkansas daily Democrat details visitors from Russellville Indiana Mrs R E La Follette and Mrs Fred Belles guests for holidays celebrate their 47th wedding anniversary and many callers stop by tribute. Also notes Mooseheart lodge auxiliary installs new officers with Mrs Nell Arnold chief installing officer and Mrs Beatrice Rensburg grand guide. The Tri Kappa charity chapter hosts a meeting at Mrs Glenn Lyon's home and sponsors a ward donation in Rockville proximately 125 spent aiding 17 children. Walter McGaughey of Russellville visits, Mrs R L O'Hair returns from Evansville, Joe McCord of Trana ville visits.
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Fayetteville
Ark
Daily Democrat
R.E. la Follette
Russellville
Ind
W. P. Spencer
Spencer
Fred Belles
Belles
Auxiliary of the Mooseheart Lodge
Nell Arnold
Beatrice Rensburg
Tri Kappa Chority
Glenn Lyon
Arritorium
Rockville
P U
Continuation of Fox Film Stunt Ends in Deaths
Ross Cook, a Fox Company stunt pilot, faced a fatal air crash while filming Men are Dangerous. He and others died during the shoot, which depicted the 1928 death of Belgian financier Captain Alfred Loewenstein as his plane went over the English Channel.
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Ross Cook
Fox Company
Alfred Loewenstein
English Channel
Victims of Santa Monica air crash named in Hollywood circles
Hollywood figures mourned as victims of the Santa Monica crash were identified. Kenneth Hawks born 1898 in Goshen Indiana. Mary Astor later wife. Others named include Max Gold 29, Conrad Wells, Gypsy Wells, Bei M Frankel, George Eastman 29, Otto Jordan 26, Henry Johannes, Tom Harris, Hallock Rouse, Ross Cook. Navy takes charge of divers in deep sea search for seven Fox staff members missing after two planes collided, ten killed.
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Hollywood
Cal
Santa Monica
Kenneth Hawks
Goshen
Ind
Yale
Hawks
Mary Astor
Max Gold
Hawk
Conrad Wells
Gypsy Wells
Bei M. Frankel
New York
Samuel Frankel
George Eastman
Otto Jordan
Maine
Henry Johannes
Tom Harris
Hallock Rouse
Ross Cook
Rouse
Cook
INS
United States Navy
Fox Film Company
Just a Movie Stunt on Ruth Alexander Collision
Passengers aboard the Ruth Alexander described the airshow crash as just a movie stunt. Three planes collided near the harbor, two plummeting into the sea and burning, while small boats rushed to the wreckage as onlookers watched from the liner.
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Los Angeles
Ruth Alexander
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