Lillian Gish Bitten By Dog in Norwalk
Actress Lillian Gish was bitten while rescuing her Sicilian puppy from a mongrel in Norwalk Connecticut. She sustained gashes to the palm and back of her left hand. two wounds were treated at Norwalk hospital before she returned to the McCullough home with her mother Mae Robinson and sister Dorothy Gish.
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Norwalk
Conn
Lillian Gish
Europe
McCullaurh
Mae Robinson
Dorothy Gish
Miss Gish
New York
Wreck of The Texas Special Near Osage Hills
In the Frisco line derailment near Osage Hills the Texas Special lost cars, with the baggage car unoccupied. Rescue efforts saved many and two railway workers died, including engineer C. E. Ray and fireman E. T. White, while passengers aided by local residents were taken to hospitals. Atlee Wickersham, injured but alert, organized flagging and called for help from the terminal supervisor.
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C. E., Ray
Newburg
E. T. White
Maplewood
St. Louisans
ST. Louis
Frisco
Osage Hills
Atlee Wickersham
Wickersham
P. W. Conley
Tower Station
Fort Worth
Dallas
San Antonio
Texas
Burch
Meador
Russell
Conley
Uncharted Spitzbergen Passage Reaches White Island Peak
The expedition notes approach three storms islands and sight a prominent white peak on White Island. They mark a 1928 Italian depot for Nobile and Amundsen, set up a hut, then sail east through ice free waters, noting the region's notorious remoteness.
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Storm Island
White Island
Victoria Island
Worsley-Algarsson
Nobile
Roald Amundsen
White Peak
Giles Land
Spitzbergen
Andree Expedition Mystery Unearthed on White Island
The Bratvaag crew discovers the Andree Polar Expedition remains on White Island after viewing a diary and gear from 1896. They find a boat buried in snow, a sledge, clothing, instruments, and a monogrammed handkerchief as they piece together the doomed journey amid a silent Arctic landscape.
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White Island
Bratvaag
Ole Myklebust
Severin Skjelten
Skjelten
Karl Tusvik
Olaf Salen
Johan Almstad
Sigurd Muyklebust
Andree
Almstad
Myklebust
Eliassen
Ekernaasvaag
Andree Expedition
Nils Strinberg
Coal Heaters Blast For Bonus After Long Night
Labor the money. Officials of the coal company are urged to act as neighbors call Earl Shields, sales manager. Saunders is sent home after 15 hours of uninterrupt ed coal shoveling. Shields promises a bonus and steady work.
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Coal Company
Earl Shields
Saunders
Shields
Robert Saunders
Air races at Labor Day feature women pilots and altitude record bid
The event includes the Thompson trophy free-for-all and a Mrs. Robert R. McCormick trophy for nine women pilots led by Opal Kunz Phoebe Omle Ruth Nichols and others. A second major act is Wilfred G Moore attempting a new world altitude record for light class C planes with a 24,672 foot record to beat.
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Liams
D. Fowlie
Hawks
England
Labor Day
Robert R. McCormick
Opal Kunz
New York
N. Y
Phoebe Omle
Memphis
Tenn
Ruth Nichols
Gladys O’donnell
Los Angeles
Ruth Barron
Hollywood
Marjorie Doig
Waterbury
Conn
Mildred Morgan
Lone American Missionary Stays Behind in Shanghai
Shanghai dispatch reports Allen Cameron, an American missionary, remaining in Changspi as other foreigners evacuate amid a threatened communist attack. Cameron, of the Mission, declines to depart, choosing to stay and assist locals as danger looms.
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Shanghai
Allen Cameron
Changspi
Cameron
Harold Lloyd and Wife Adopt Child
Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis announce their intent to adopt six year old Marjorie Elizabeth, an orphan taken in nine months ago. They say their daughter Gloria B needs a sister and Peggy, a bobbed blonde, joined the family in Beverly Hills.
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Marjorie Elizabeth
Lloyds
Gloria B
Peggy
Lloyd
Beverly Hills
Gloria
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Big Dog
AL Jolson
Charlie Ruggles
Stanley Smith
Ginger Rogers
Frank Morgan
Claudette Colbert
Frederic March
Lnquiry
Eliasen
Olaf Hanssen
Adolf Sorensen
United States
Palos
Hunan
Dorothy Gulliver
Kenneth Harlan
Montana
Pau
Grove
Grove’s
Broadway
Roland West
Chester
Morris Mae Busch
High Point’s
Ben Lyon
The
Alice Lloyd White
Hughes
Labor
Harold Lloyd
Mildred Davis
High Point Enterprise
Cooking
American Theatre
Marrons
Crosse & Blackwell
College Inn Chicken
College Inn
Chicken
Hutchen
East
Washington
High Point
National Food Stores, Inc
North Main
Emerywood
O. Max Gardner
Carolina
EFIRD
South
Efird’s
Efird’s Department Store
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