Skeletons in records drive murder mystery in swing era
In chapter fourteen of the serialized story, detective Bob Tait confronts bootlegging contracts and a tricky deal with Montgomery of the recording company. He mobilizes The Swingateers led by Torchy Stephens to secure records while warning band members that Myrna Dombey faces danger if Lud Dombey’s murder is unsolved. The team plans to protect Myrna and keep the group intact as tensions rise.
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Yana Dombey
Robert Tait
Anne Lestler
Myrna
Dannie Feeley
Ludden Bey
Feeley
Taith
Donny
Bob Tait
Dan Feeley
Onegraph
Ludmbey
Legitite Recording Company
Tait
Dombey
Ley
Key
Ecompany
R. Montgomery
Mr. Montgomery
Swingateers
Torchy Stephens
Montgomery
Donnie Feeley
Stephens
Torchy
Harris Rogers
Myrna Dombey
Lud
Lud Dombey
Pacfic Plaza
Satiric Electricians Probe Wattage in Quito
Two despondent electricians stranded in Quito, Ecuador, attempt to calculate current wattage using known voltage and amperage. They use basic electrical math to derive wattage for the problem posed in the Want Ad page.
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Ecuador
Lessons in English by W. L. Gordon
Today’s word EXPONENT defined as one who represents or that which represents. The lesson notes common errors in usage and pronunciation while urging readers to grow vocabulary by mastering a single word daily.
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W. L. Gordon
How Can I How Can I Make a Remedy for Chapped Lips
A reader asks about a remedy for chapped lips and receives a recipe mixing white wax spermaceti almond oil and fresh lard. The dialogue also covers separating cream from milk by warming and cooling and removing tobacco stains from brass by alcohol.
Highway Deaths Total 105 on NC Roads Last Month
Raleigh dispatch reports 105 people killed on North Carolina highways in September, up from 95 in August, as authorities tally traffic fatalities for the month.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Versailles Peace Terms After World War I
Uncle Ray surveys the Versailles treaty after World War I, noting terms debated by Allied leaders led by Lloyd George Clemenceau Orlando and Wilson. Germany must return Alsace Lorraine and cede lands to Poland Denmark and Belgium, surrender ships over 1 000 tons, lose Saar coal output for 15 years, give up colonies, and pay 33 billion dollars, with reflections on fairness and lessons for Hitler.
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Germany
France
Belgium
Europe
Versailles
Paris
Ijloyd George
Great Britain
Clemenceau
Orlando
Italy
Wilson
United States
Alsace
Lorraine
Poland
Denmark
Saar Valley
Africa
Asia
Hitler
Uncle Ray
McKenney on Bridge Analyzed Hand With Finesse Decision
In a semi humorous note, North underbids on the first round to avoid misleading partners as South holds a strong hand. The play centers on a safety finesse to protect against East's potential diamond lead through the king. South ultimately scores five odd while East risks leading into a strong suit.
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East
South
North
Look and Learn by A G Gordon
Answers reveal historical trivia from 1937. The Wright brothers’ first flight marked 34 years earlier on December 17, 1937. Edgar Rice Burroughs authored Tarzan. A child acquires U S citizenship when a parent naturalizes. mother’s naturalization alone does not. Prussian guards stood seven feet in stockings. cloth named Madras.
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U. S
Germany
India
Wright Brothers
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Madras
Modern Etiquette Q&A guidance by Roberta Lee
A reader asks about Halloween pranks and property damage and the appropriate behavior for a well-bred man. The column advises against destructive pranks and notes etiquette on table knife use and engraved RSVP forms as rude.
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Roberta Lee
Police hunt safecrackers after Coca Cola plant break in
Raleigh police seek two or more burglars who broke into the Capital Coca Cola bottling plant Sunday night and carried off a 309 pound strong box containing more than 2,000 dollars. The robbery prompted an intensive investigation by local authorities.
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Raleigh
Coca
Hickory Man Confesses to Two Year Old Murder
Ed Burns of Hickory confessed to the 1938 killing of Raymond Otis Hawn, whose battered body was found in a wood near Rockford. Burns is jailed awaiting a city court hearing, as four others tied to the case are bound over to Superior Court. three men face first degree murder charges and a woman is charged as an accessory.
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Hickory
Ed Burns
P. P. Jones
Jones
Raymond Otis Hawn
Burns
Hawn
Sam Best
James Ennis
Mose Brown
Mary Boya
Newton
Rookford
Elders Meet in Charlotte Ahead of North Carolina Conference
Presiding elders of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South gather in Charlotte for the annual gathering. The conference opens Thursday at First Methodist with Bishop Clare Purcell in attendance. Sessions adjourn Monday after the appointments list is read.
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Charlotte
Western North Carolina
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
First Methodist Church
Clare Purcell
Puritans Ban Christmas Observance in 1658 Law
On May 11 1658 American Puritans enacted a law prohibiting Christmas as a holiday. The statute faced repeal in the following years as the era shifted away from strict observance.
Button hunter in Richmond finds luck on streets
Garland M. Reid a 54 year old railway machinist and bachelor credibly says he solved the button problem by luck. Three years ago he found a button and a penny and hours later another button and a dime. He grew superstitious and kept hunting for buttons until one night he uncovered a $400 roll of bank notes The spree continued and he has since collected about 2000 buttons in search of more good luck.
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Richmond
Thes
Garland M. Reid
Oklahoma law school elects all 90 as presidents
Norman Oklahoma seniors at the University of Oklahoma law school elected every member of the class as president and vice president to avoid favoritism. Each of the 90 will serve one day with Glenn Watson commenting they elected the whole group.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma Law School
Glenn Watson
Movie unit films mules at Kansas City livestock show
RIT players aiding a film shoot arrived in Kansas City for atmosphere at the American Royal Livestock Show. Cameramen filmed 400 mules and sent the footage to California. Director Ted Reed noted the LA market only yielded 50 mules, yet the scene required them.
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RIT Players
Kansas City
Hollywood
Missouri
California
Los Angeles
Ted Reed
Weighty political problem weighs on probate clerk
Rockford Illinois probate clerk Beas K Clifford says she is not worried about re election but about campaign dinners and their effect on a woman's figure. She notes campaigning raises concerns for her health and diet plans involve bread and milk.
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Rockford, Ill
Beas K. Clifford
Mouse Sings in Canary Cage In Lincoln
Richard P. Steiner owns a mouse that joined his canary in a duet after squeezing into the cage. The rodent now resides in a screened enclosure and will only eat bird seed.
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Lincoln
Richard P. Steiner
Canaries
Canary
Inside gossipy column roundup sparks quick takeoffs
A scattershot snapshot of entertainment and politics references notes spurned Buick ads, Czech Skoda artillery connection to Spanish Loyalists, an upcoming newspaper influence survey, Hank Greenberg romance gossip, and theatre taboo topics. It cites Maurice Evans, Sherwood, Walt Disney copyright suit, and Broadway flirt banters.
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Skoda
Hank Greenberg
Detroit
Eleanore Kitney
Negro Confession Spurs School Fire Probe in Smyrna
In Smyrna Georgia police investigated the burning of a ten room Negro school after a reported confession by Will Drew Russell that he killed a white farmer and his daughter with an ax handle. Police said a white mob of about 500 stoned several Negroes earlier.
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Smyrna
C. T. White
White
BR. W.brook
Will Drew Russell
Ta Counte
Requested Increases To Send State Budget To Record Mark
The advisory budget commission in Raleigh held hearings on the 1939 41 budget requests. Officials sought large increases to finance new activities, not pay raises. Hearings run through Saturday before the commission drafts recommendations for the General Assembly. A table lists current biennium budgets and requests for 1929-41 allotments.
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Raleigh
Advisory Budget Commission
General Assembly
Licenses of Cotton Classifiers Lifted in Mid-South
In Memphis on October 18, 39 of the region's 300 cotton classifiers had licenses revoked for faulty classification of cotton tied to Commodity Credit Corporation loans. EB Parker stated the Agriculture Department is reviewing 36 to 40 more in the area. licenses revoked: 17 in Mississippi, 12 in Arkansas, 9 in Tennessee, 1 in Missouri.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mid-South
Commodity Credit Corporation
EB. G. Parker
Board of Supervising Cotton Examiners
Parker
Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
World Fair bus roads ready with fleet of 100 buses
About ten miles of bus roads were built on the grounds of the New York World’s Fair and a fleet of 100 buses will operate over them. In a separate note, naturalist Carl Akeley reportedly fought and killed a leopard barehanded in Africa in 1896.
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Carl Akeley
Africa
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