Unkissable Kirby McRill Killed in Auto Accident
Kirby McRill, known as the unkissable pedestrian and champion walker, aged 75, was killed in Kansas City when struck by an automobile on a downtown street. The eccentric figure famed for long walks from Kansas farms to Kansas City and Chicago faded into later years selling salvage and attracting public curiosity.
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Kansas City
Kirby McRill
Chicago
Twelfth Street
Daisy Bell
Kansas
Tonganoxie
Vrence
McRill
Kirby
George N. Brown
Brown
E. J. Shannahan
Heart of America Walking Club
Shannahan
Slot Machine In Classroom At Wisconsin University
An idle slot machine sits in Professor Philip G. Fox’s statistics classroom at the University of Wisconsin Madison. From 80 000 plays on the confiscated device scientists find slot machines have no conscience and no memory and can’t pick out lucky or unlucky people undermining popular beliefs.
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Madison
Wis
INS
University of Wisconsin
00S of Commerce
Philip G. Fox
Prof
Fox
Marines A Tough Outfit in John Wayne Biography
Hollywood notes say Marines are among the toughest branches, as John Wayne has portrayed every service branch in film but never ranked above sergeant when drafted for Sands of Iwo Jima. His on screen career spans Cavalry Infantry Air Force and Navy roles.
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Hollywood
INS
Marines
John Wayne
Wayne
Cavalry
Infantry
Air Force
Navy
Republic
Iwo Jima
Daisy Gates Defendants Notified in High Point Divorce Action
Daisy M Gates is named in a municipal court action in High Point Guilford County North Carolina seeking an absolute divorce after more than two years separation. She must appear at the Clerk of Municipal Court within twenty days after February 16 1950 to answer or demur. The notice is dated January 16 1950 and signed by Florence W Allen Asst Clerk. John W Langford is the attorney for the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daisy M. Gates
City of
High Point
Guilford County
North Carolina
Florence W. Allen
John W. Langford
Machine Age Foreclosure Notice and Factory Maintenance
Foreclosure sale announced by trustee Co. N. Cox on February 11 1950 in High Point NC for bundles of Bundy property lots and industrial equipment including multiple motors, boilers and saws. The article then discusses rising maintenance costs in the machine age and the shift toward maintenance automation and preventative practices at a Cleveland show attended by engineers, with quotes from industry figures.
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C. W. Meredith
Office Register of
Guilford County
County
South Main Street
High Point
N. C
J. A. Bundy
Office Register of Deeds
Hamilton
H. P. Westinghouse
H.P. Century
H.P
H.p.ge
Westinghouse
H.P. de Walt
Thor
Stanley
Crescent Machine Works
Fairbanks Motor
Co. N. Cox
New York
Cleveland
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society For the Advancement of Management
James E. Sutherland
Macdonald Brothers of
Detroit
Gilbert I. Ross
Ross
Catastrophe Death Toll Tops 1 200 in 1949 US
Metropolitan Life statisticians report more than 1200 disaster deaths in 1949 across the United States. The Washington DC air collision in November caused the heaviest single crash death toll at 55. Motor vehicle, fire, flood and tornado deaths rose while mine disasters declined.
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New York
N. Y
United States
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Washington, D. C
Arkansas
Louisiana
Warren
Ark
California
Mountain States
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Ann A
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Patatte
Lt Lg
James R. Gates
By Sam Dawson
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Jacquard
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