Samuel M Clure dies at 92 author editor who built McClure Syndicate
New York AP report notes Samuel Sidney McClure born in Ireland rose from poverty to create the McClure Syndicate in 1884 and McClure's magazine in 1893. He fostered Rudyard Kipling and other famed writers, paid Doyle for Holmes stories, and helped launch early literary careers before his death after a hospital stay in the Bronx.
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NEW York
Samuel Sidney McClure
St. Barnabas Hospital
Bronx
Galesburg
McClure
McClure Syndicate
Rudyard’ Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevensoft
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
O. Henry
Jack London
Booth Tarkington
Anthony Hope
Ida M. Tarbell
Abraham Lincoln
Northern Ireland
Knox College
Boston
Wheelman
de Vinne Press
Century Magazine
Skeletons found in Essex cottage
In an Essex cottage once searched twice since 1939 police broke in at a bank’s request and found a well dressed skeleton on a table a supper tray and a poisoned bottle nearby a Shakespeare volume open to Romeo and Juliet The coroner ordered an inquest to determine whether the remains are Ada Kent the actress missing ten years and how they came to rest in the cottage
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Whalebone Corner
England
Ada Kent
Miss Kent
Essex
Fomeo
Juliet
First Night as Internees in the Soviet Union
The narrator describes the uneasy welcome as internees meet Russian officers and learn about life under communism. A radio translation reveals only hopeful talk about Western workers, interrupted by the Moscow news and a sobering Tokyo report. The mood turns somber as eleven of sixteen raid planes are said to have fallen, leaving the group among the five survivors.
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Mike
Moscow
Russia
Tokyo
Jnews
Red Army
Japan
Soviet Union
Emmens
Middletown Ordinance authorizes notes for airport land fields
Ordinance 2686 proposes issuing notes of 90000 in anticipation of bonds to develop landing fields for aircraft in Middletown Ohio. It repeals 2656, declares an emergency for public health and city operations, sets bonds at 90000 with 3 percent interest and ten year maturity, and imposes a direct annual tax levy to back notes and bonds.
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Middletown
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Butler County
Ohio
City’ Commission
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Middlet
Bladietown
Dietown
Bride Surprises Guests After Ice Accident on Eve
Mary Ruth Hunter slipped on ice the night before her wedding to Robert Vaughn, fracturing her collarbone. Undeterred, she attended the ceremony wrapped in bandages and departed for her honeymoon right away.
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ST. Louis
Mary Ruth Hunter
Robert Vaughn
Fragmentary WWII Era Clip Reflects Telegram and Bath Reference
A brief, fragmentary line references a cable to a wife and fliers, noting a first bath described as a la Russky, attributed to Lt. Col. Robert G. Emmens in 1949. The excerpt reads as a clipped wartime morale note with no full context or action.
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