New Year Celebrations Warmly Welcomed Across Manitowoc
The city marks New Year’s Eve with public and private gatherings led by Old Father Time and an impersonator in sheets. Wisconsin National Guard Company E hosts its 32nd annual ball with a 10:30 p.m. drill, while Elks Sylvester Ball and Odd Fellows Rebekahs party events light up the night. Midnight salutes, theater screenings, and watch-night services cap the festivities as New Year’s Day brings quiet dinners and community meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Company E
Wisconsin National Guard
Opera Frouse
Manitowoc Lodge of Elks
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
Capitol Theater
New York
Georgia Tech
University of California
Pasadena
Calif
Lights of New York at Capitol promises spine tingling prom
The Capitol Theatre presents Lights of New York for a three day run with Helene Costello and Cullen Landis in leading roles and a large supporting cast including Mary Carr Gladys Brockwell Wheeler Oskman Eugene Pallette and more. The Skadow hosts The Fleet's In a Mikadow next year starring Clara Bow as a dance hall hostess in a fleet town rivalry plot with James Hart and Jack Oakie in supporting roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helene Costello
Cullen Lanois
Mary Carr
Gladys Brockwell
Wheeler Oskman
Eugene Pallette
Tom McGuire
Tom Dugan
Harry Downing
Guy D'Ennery
Walter Percival
Jere Delaney
Robert Elliott
Capitol Theatre
Skadow
Clara Bow
Mikadow
Miss Bow
California
James’ Hart
Paramount
Jack Oakie
Man Refuses to Let Wall Street Iconoclast Return
The article notes George Graham Rice, famed Wall Street figure, was convicted as a stock swindler and sentenced to four years in Atlanta with five years probation. Rice had prior terms in Elmira Reform School in 1890, Sing Sing for forgery in 1896, and Atlanta Penitentiary prior to his current sentence.
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Manitowoc
George Graham Rice
Wall Street
Rice
Atlanta
Elmira
New York
Sing Sing
Police Blotter Details Weekend Crashes and Arrest
The blotter notes Charles O'Brien, 729 South Fifteenth street, involved in two crashes with other cars at South Twenty first and South Nineteenth streets around 6 pm Saturday. No injuries. Eller, 919 North Ninth street, jailed for suspected drunken driving, due in municipal court. Nash roadster with two flat tires traced to W. M. Endress of Waunakee. Radio trouble at Twelfth and Division cleared after utility crew inspection.
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Charles O’brien
South Fifteenth Street
William Roeder
South Twenty-first Street
F. Mrozibski
South Nineteenth
O’brien
Twelfth
Division Streets
Utility Department
Eller
North Ninth Street
Nquor
Nash
Seventeenth
Washington Streets
W. M. Endress
Waunakee
Manitowoc County Rural Schools Annual Ready for Distribution
The twenty third Manitowoc County Annual of rural schools is set for distribution and packs extensive information including school statistics a directory officer and teacher lists district school listings graduation program graduates and honor student pictures in the most comprehensive county superintendent report to date.
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Manitowoc Co
Funeral services for Mrs Marga ret Keller
Funeral services for Mrs. Margret Keller 40 were held at her Rockwood home and St. Anne's Church Francis Creek with Rev. Jaeckels officiating. Burial followed in Francis Creek cemetery. Born in Germany in 1888, she came to this country five years ago with husband and four children. Survived by widower George Keller and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Keller
Rockwood
St. Anne’s Church
Francis Creek
Jaeckels
George Keller
Two Sunday Fire Alarms Reported With Little Damage
The city fire department answered two alarms Sunday with minimal damage reported. The first occurred at 8:55 A.M. at 1310 South Tenth Street due to an overheated furnace igniting rags and laundry clothes, smoke filling the basement but no water used. The second fire struck Mrs. Olive B. Lesmonde at South Eighteenth Street around noon, caused by another overheated furnace, with small damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Weitzman
South Tenth Street
Olive B. Lesmonde
South Eighteenth Street
Judgment Secured Against Judge Karel in Milwaukee
A judgment for 28,251.15 was secured against County Judge John Karel by Homemaker Land Co. Circuit Judge John J. Gregory ordered the judgment after attorney Charles Friend produced a 1923 note for 20,992.21 with interest and a confessed judgment clause. The judge was reportedly ill at home, while the process allows the county treasurer to apply salary payments toward satisfaction of the judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
John Karel
Homemaker Land Company
John J. Gregory
Atty
Charles Friend
Karel
Friend
Bell System Cuts Day Toll Rates In Long Distance Calls
Wiscon sin Telephone Co manager E McCormick announces a third rate cut in two years and four months effective Feb 1 for day calls 130 to 1500 miles apart. Station to station and person to person rates fall. evening and night rates stay. Net public saving exceeds 5 million annually.
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E. McCormick
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Manitowoc
Miami
Madison
New York
Janesville-Cleveland
Kenosha
Boston
Milwaukee
Denver
Bell
Bell System
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Record-breaking 1928 cable construction across industrial cities
Construction in 1928 reached 1,500 miles of long distance cable, shattering all prior yearly records as it linked major industrial areas. The achievement highlighted rapid expansion of the nation’s communications network across key cities.
Move to Manitou: Lakeshore Products HQ Shifts from Sheboygan
Lakeshore Products plans to move its corporate headquarters from Sheboygan to Manitowoc following a notice filed with the county recorder. The company, maker of malt products, has operated for years with Erwin Kunz as president and George Kunz as secretary. incorporators include Michael Ronk and Edward Wilfer. The $10,000 capitalization remains split into 100 shares of $100 par value. Membership in a hospital plan for Centra lia Washington teachers offers monthly payments for medical care.
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Lakeshore Products Company
Sheboygan
County Register of Deeds
Gust Eggert
In‘corporation
Eggert
Manitowoc
Erwin Kunz
George Kunz
Michael Ronk
Edward Wilfer
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Capitol
Danville
Ill
Owindler
New Yorker
Betty Wil‘son
New York City
Mars
Keller
Dept
the Times
JPAY
Katherine Merry
Pontiac
Mich
Michigan State Normal College
Ypsilanti, Mich
National League of Women Voters
Tomove Office
Centralia
Wash
Groffman
Best
Kado
Marion Davies
Fables
Os ‘Owe
Fond du Lac County
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Eng. Evan, Lutheran Church
New England’Gas & Elec
Fullerton
Parkway Towers
Keystone Water Works
LaSaille
Portiata
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