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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1931
Page
4
Hot Springs officials view the filing of a petition as postponing the 90 day divorce act. The measure would have taken effect at midnight but is suspended until the general election next year. Opponents seek an injunction to block the referendum and have nine days to present their case.
H L Mencken argues American letters face a lull with few debutantes of real importance since 1910s. He notes past flourishing eras, cites factors from peace to overproduction, and predicts a better chance for tomorrow’s prodigy as editors tighten prints amid a general mood shift.
The piece argues that proliferating magazines, especially low-quality and high-circulation ones, crowd out serious work. Pulp magazines suffer as demand shrinks for ambitious fiction, while only a few quality outlets remain. The trend pressures new authors like Henry Jamies.
Julia Maude Lowther, 23, convicted of first degree murder for killing Mrs Clara Smith, wife of her lover Tilby Smith, in Ashtabula area. Jury’s failure to mercy-recommendation made death sentence mandatory under Ohio law. Lowther, mother of a seven year old, testified in wait on a lonely road when she fired the fatal shot.
Alex F. Lewis, 35, welfare department clerk, admitted diverting 207000 dollars of city welfare funds to a fictitious wholesale grocery firm. He claimed he acted alone and said about half could be recovered while the rest financed automobiles, a motorboat, and high living. he remained jailed as investigators review his account.
Two men, one a Nassau County politician, are hunted in the slaying of Starr Faithfull whose body was found at Long Beach. She left her home after a shopping trip near Mayor Walker’s residence and was seen at the Cunard pier. Police investigated whether she was assaulted, fell from a liner, or was dropped at sea after being escorted from a ship.
Texas Guinan, home from a France trip that she says cost her fifty grand due to a ban on her and her girls, contemplates recouping in Reno after a fabulous offer to run a nightclub there. Other brief items note Indian boys learning forest lore in Asheville, a Scout charter on the Cherokee reservation, and opinions on education and golf.
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