Laramie Postmaster Nye Gains Fame as Humorist
Bill Nye resigned as postmaster of Laramie Wyoming and sent a letter to President Arthur. The letter amused readers and 80 letters or lines helped him gain fame as a humorist.
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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
4
Bill Nye resigned as postmaster of Laramie Wyoming and sent a letter to President Arthur. The letter amused readers and 80 letters or lines helped him gain fame as a humorist.
Three girls and two boys win free trips to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago through News- Tribune contests and local merchants. Vernon Debo leads with 60,000 votes after deductions. Irene Levis is runner up with 15,015 votes. sixth contest period begins today as rules emphasis continues.
St Louis June 1 AP Gov Guy 3 Park told students at the David Rankin Jr school of mechanical trades that they will find work after completing their courses. He praised a national program to create jobs and said the dole is a mistake. employment is needed.
In New York Harbor the Princess formerly Marion Snowden and Prince Girolamo Rospignosi greeted each other from shore and ship, signaling that rumors of separation are unfounded. The amphibian plane and distant shouts could not dampen their reunion on the dock and aboard the liner Rea.
Detroit sentence hearing over Leroy Brown alleges innocence for a 1929 crime. A Wisconsin man loses a postal letter from a fire box. Chicago incidents include a terrier and boxing legends at Lake Shore Drive. Oklahoma City notes cover ancient Indian baseball umpire tasks and a triplets birth in Poteau.
San Jose Calif June 1 Undersheriff Earle Hamilton directing the investigation of Mrs Allene Thorpe Lamson secretary of the Stanford Campus Y W C A said he would ask the district attorney to file a murder charge against her widower David A Lamson We have ample evidence to warrant such a charge Hamilton disclosed he had been searching for two days for the missing Lamson maid Neighbors said she had not been seen since Monday night and Hamilton believed she had been spirited away A doctor retained by officers reported positive evidence Mrs Lamson had been struck four times on the back of the head Free argued the death was an accidental fall in the bathtub He said a prowler apparently insane had been seen in the neighborhood prior to the death and he expected to locate the prowler
An old health ad promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills to stimulate bile flow and relieve lethargy. It warns against laxatives and mineral waters, claims two pounds of bile should digest food, and touts the product’s gentle vegetable extracts. The copy cites a 1931 price of 28 cents and urges looking for the red label.
An official accused of murdering his wife faced a charge and denied the claim. Supporters from Stanford University circles, including Mrs. Theodore Hoover, defended him, recalling the couple as beloved. They suggested the death resulted from a fall tied to ill health rather than foul play.
San Francisco report states Mr and Mrs Rowland H Smith claim all observed soda puppies are male. The couple run a kennel and expect higher prices for male puppies. A doctor allegedly cites a German theory linking maternal blood alkalinity to male births, describing progeny as male in this batch.
A prospective wire-haired terrier mother was fed bicarbonate of soda, yielding a litter of all males. Reported as unusual since normal litters are typically half male and half female.
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