Fats Waller Jazz and Hodges Swing In This Week's Bluebird Picks
Fats Waller delivers lively revival of Oh Frenchy and It's a Sin to Tell a Lie with exuberant piano and vocal comedy. Hodges and Orchestra showcase Passion Flower and Going Out the Back Way with Ellington集团 players delivering saxophone solos and crisp ensemble work. Dinah Shore records Together and I Learned for wartime release, pairing a Hollywood hit with vocal chorus harmonies.
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Fats Waller
Fats
France
Victor
Fats” Waller
Waller
Walcomedy
Passion Flower
Pf.t
Hodges
Bluebird
Johnny
Duke E
Dinah Shore
Hollywood
Lesson I Learned a Torch Song by Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore delivers a torchy ballad style with a warm sentimental reading of It Learned a Lesson I'll Never Forget. The mixed chorus mirrors instrumental textures imitating organ and muted brass behind her expressive vocal style.
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Dinah
Finnish Police Block Helsinki Highways
Finnish police blocked all roads out of Helsinki at dawn and conducted mass raids through the capital into the morning. About 500 people were interrogated for invalid identity papers, with authorities expressing satisfaction and promising further details later. Ships and trains were inspected as part of the operation led by Interior Minister Henrik Hillilae.
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New York
Helsinki
FCC
Interior
Henrik Hillilae
Cornell Doctor Sees Shift From Shell Shock to Battle Fatigue
Dr. James H. Wall of Cornell Medical College says the term shell-shocked is replaced by battle fatigue. He urges patience in handling veterans discharged for emotional reasons and notes many will readjust and need opportunities for work and recreation.
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Ithaca
N. Y
INS
James H. Wall
Cornell Medical College
Wall
Oil Discovered 85 Years Ago Today in Pennsylvania
A historical overview marks August 27 1859 as the day Colonel Drake struck oil at Oil Creek near Titusville Pennsylvania starting the global petroleum era. The piece traces early oil reports from 1627, 1806 salt brine wells, Kier’s 1840 medicine bottling, and the Seneca Oil Company before Drake’s strike and the ensuing rush, pipeline development, war impacts, and postwar plans for oil governance.
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Den
Ellen M. Rollins
FE. L. Drake
Oil
Titusville
Drake
United States
Cuba
New York
Pittsburgh
Samuel M. Kier
Kier
New England
Seneca Oil Company
Teamsters
Ident Grant
The
Titusville Morning Herald
Funeral Rites for Mrs Amy Flynn at West End Baptist Church
Funeral services for Amy Flynn 84 widow of C F Flynn were held at her home 202 Ennis Street then at 3 PM Saturday from West End Baptist Church. Rev R R Jackson officiated with pallbearers from High Point Fiveriment and floral tributes by grandchildren and friends. Mrs Joe Carmichael and Misses Sarah Frances Jessup Mary Ella Coffey sang Near The Cross and Jesus I Come. Many attended.
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Amy Flynn
C. 5. Flynn
Ennis Street
R. R. Jackson
West End
T. G. Shelton
C. R. Shelton
W. B. Wagner
W. D. McCassin
Funeral services for James B Richardson
Funeral services for James B Richardson 81 farmer of Randleman Rt. 1 were held Saturday at Ebenezer Methodist Church. Rev G H Needham and Miss Margaret Farlow conducted the rites with interment in Ebenezer cemetery. Pallbearers were Everett Gamble Vestal Coltrane Claude Coltrane Roy Frazier R V Caudle G F Shields. A mixed quartet sang Asleep In Jesus and City Four Square during the service. A large attendance.
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James B. Richardson
James B Richardson
Randleman
Rt. 1
Everett Gamble
Vestal Coltrane
Claude Coltrane
Roy Frazier
R. V. Caudle
G. F. Shields
Belvin Craven
Messrs
FE. C
Vergil Hilton Land
Joe L. Coltrane
G. H. Needham
Jesus
Government To Hike Its Cotton Prices
The government announced an increase of 50 points in the selling price of government owned or controlled cotton. The new price is 50 points above parity, aiming to bring market prices closer to the parity goal set by Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Armour: World-Trotter of Diplomacy With a Sense of Humor
Norman Armour, veteran of 14 foreign posts and acting Latin American affairs chief, is praised as one of America's most likable diplomats. The piece highlights his wit, stories, wide postings from France to Argentina, and shares anecdotes from Petrograd to Haiti.
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Washington
Norman Armour
State Department
Uae
Att
Argentina
Pampas
Ie Hills
Haiti
Thames
Tiber
Russia
Princeton
Armour
Campbelltown
Argyllshire
London
Jock
Old Petrograd
Moscow
Myra Koudasheff- Armour
Harvard
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Uruguay
Italy
Japan
Go Ada
Chile
Roosevelt
Hull
Cordell
Norman
Price for 15.16 inch middling cot ton in Southeast mills
The price for middling cot ton of standard density stored in the southeastern mill area is 22.85 cents per pound.
Mysterious figure jokes about debts and art in odd encounters
The passage portrays a man conversing with an ambassador amid ice near the Potomac. He comments on seating safety and exits, mocks fishermen, and praises sleeping through thunderstorms. He calls himself a collector of rare objects and debts, some of which he deems works of art.
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Potomac
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