The Molly Pitcher of Lemont Fights a Railroad Drive
Mrs John Doolin of Lemont defends her home against a railroad right of way using a shotgun previously believed to be unloaded. Her stand halts workmen, leads to a verbal standoff, and ends with the company agreeing to purchase the land and pay damages. The family, including three children, celebrates their fifty fifth wedding anniversary this month.
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Molly
John Doolin
Lemont
Doolins
Doolin
Chicago
Alexander Sullivan
John
WNY
Shoes and rulers humor through the ages
The piece notes medieval footwear tied to status with a prince's footgear at 30 inches and a baron's at 24 inches, then explains the rise of heels as regal vanity. It adds that Hawaiian kings valued horse racing and gambling, with King Kalakaua reportedly wagering land against cash and carrying a map of Oahu.
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Louis XVI
France
Hawaii
King Kalakaua
Oahu
Speech Expert Is Aid to King George
Lionel Logue serves as oral instructor to King George VI at the British royal court. He acts as a key advisor and confidant to the king, shaping his public speaking after a childhood of stammering challenges.
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King George
Lionel Logue
George VI
Logue
George
Stars and Contracts Shake Hollywood Bureaucracy
Shirley Temple wins radio speaking time under her parents by eight thirty. Carole Lombard signs five year one picture a year for Selznick. Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer discuss Countess Walewska. Josephine Hutchinson leaves Warner for He Who Gets Slapped at MGM with Tracy and Taylor. Joan Crawford seeks Goldwyn, Blondell plays dual roles and dances rumba. Odds and ends note Fred Allen, Walter OKeefe pace, and Cantor engineers insist on Virgil Miller.
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Shirley Temple
Hollywood
Shirley
Mrs. Temple
Greta Garbo
Charles Boyer
Walewska
Miss Garbo
Warner Brothers
Josephine Hutchinson
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Spencer Tracy
Robert Taylor
Bennett
Joan
Constance
Joan Blondell
Dennis
Cape Cod
Fred Allen
Walter O'Keefe
Allen
Jeanette MacDonald
Eddie Cantor
Virgil Miller
Miller
Eddie
Western Newspaper Union
Doctor Viner and Bela Kun in World News Echoes
Morgenthau asks for Dr. Sunes in Washington as Dr. Viner, Chicago University economist, hawks liberal monetary ideas and warns against wage and price controls. Bela Kun’s uncertain fate haunts Europe while Germany and France maneuver generals Beck and Gamelin signal rising Junker influence. Circular Fortification Circleville roots named after an ancient fortification.
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York
Morgenthau
Sunes
Kentucky
Uncle Sam
Treasury Department
Dr. Viner
Washington
Viner
University of Chicago
The
Treasury
University
Chicago
McGill University
Harvard
Shipping Board
Tariff Commission
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Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
H EL
Freehold
N. J
Molly Pitcher
John C. Hays
Mrs. Doolin
Shotgun
Danube
Stojadinovich
Yugoslavia
Antonescue
Rumania
Hodza
Czechoslovakia
Taraesuic
Youngstown
Sir Neville Henderson
Germany
Spain
Franklin D., Jr
Ethel du Pont
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Eugene du Pont
Christchurch
Greenville
Del
Owl’s Nest
Mrs. du Pont
Aqueduct Race Track
Long Island
Sandy Boot
Prince Emmanuel
Piedmont
Victor Emmanuel
Bilbao
Virginia Walex
Carole Lombard
Paramount
Lombard
Carole
Selznick
R-K-O
Irene Dunne
Miss Minton
Miss Hutchinson
Joan Crawford
Sam Goldwyn
Lemuel F. Parton
Bela Kun
Hungary
Russia
Europe
Kun
South America
Admiral Horthy
Budapest
Kolozsva
Transylvania
University of Vienna
Red Army
Karolyi
Portugal
Brazil
Ludwig Beck
Marie Gustave Gamelin
Beck
Brain Trust
Moltke
Schlieffer
von Hindenburg
von Blomberg
Junkers
Circleville
Ohio
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