Kansas City Women Show Business Skills Beyond Looks
NEA Service profiles five of Kansas City's leading women who blend beauty with business acumen. Mrs. A. D. Jones, the only woman customs broker in America, built a vast network and imports range from hatpins to mummies. Frances M. Connally rose from sealing books to leading the Connally Letter Company. Miss Reine Fletcher started as a filing clerk and advanced through perseverance and hard work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Y Nea Service
Kansas City
A. D. Jones
America
Frances M. Connally
Kansan
Women in Business Prove Smiles Spur Success in Kansas City
The article profiles Elsie M. Cosby of a large Kansas City typewriter distributorship and A. Gladish, treasurer of a major retail house, noting Cosby employs 50 women and that smiling is key to handling rude letters. It highlights single women and widows who build income through insurance sales and other ventures, with claims of five figure income and leadership when presidents are away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie M. Cosby
Owener
E. M. Cosby
British Rum Smuggling Ship Detained by Coast Guards
Officials report British auxiliary schooner Tomako captured six miles off Sonbright New Jersey with William McCoy, dubbed the Rum Jugger King, found in hold. Ottawa talks planned to curb liquor and narcotics smuggling, with Treasury officials optimistic about cooperation with Canada and potential extradition talks. Football gains Balkan popularity as British troops introduce the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoy
Ottawa
New York
Tomako
Coast Guards
Sonbright
N. J
Wiliam
McCoay
Washington
United States
Moss
Treasury
Guawa
Friend Slain in School Basement in Bethlehem
Report from Bethlehem Pennsylvania describes a Mexican worker Feaneiseas Circleung shot three times and found dead in the basement of an abandoned Saierville schoolhouse owned by Bethlehem Steel. Companions Casimiro Pride and Antonio Prada were detained as material witnesses amid a lodging of speculation and a torn basement door. The scene included a matchlight glimpse of the body and a single brass check signed by the plant. Secret hunger strikes involving political prisoners are noted in a separate dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Saierville
Dent
Bethlehem Steel Company
Feaneiseas Circleung
Tiahedyo
Casimira Pride
Antonio Prada
Dent Qaan
Hein Hent
Cacdenas
Casinire Proto
Egsdirts
Crente
Showlouse
Railroad Board Rules on Overtime Pay and Hours
The U S railroad board rules overtime pay and hours for telegraphers and station agents, limiting a general wage increase while allowing reductions in extra hours. The decision, amid union and management input, argues overtime one and a half times deters excess hours and notes Sunday work should be paid but not punitive. Estimates suggest overtime reductions would lower costs and reflect public expectation.
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Chienagy
United States
Raitre
Tabor Beard
Ft Lind
Muneus Adsa
Brotherhoods
Radhasted Tian Mine Peyes
Wwe
Uwe Rome
M. W. Farr
William (. McAdoo
Orule
Shoot Father and Son Killings Shock Newark Night
Four men, passengers in a taxicab, were arrested after a fatal shooting that killed John Ferrara, 22, and wounded his father Nicholas in Newark. The driver Wilt Boontz reported pickups near the scene as the assailants fled. Police say the men entered a shop drunk and dragged the son outside before firing as the father intervened.
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Newark
Hs Ime
Nicholas
Wilt Ioontz
Roonty
Aoo
Shim Shi
Vic
Ferrara
Sonte Monster
Chey
Wife Takes Still To Bed In Pittsburgh Case
Police testified that Frank Zeriskack’s home yielded parts of a still found in bed with his wife Mrs Zeriskack while another section was on the roof hidden by the couple’s 10 year old daughter. Officers found Mrs Zeriskack in bed though she claimed to be ill. She was fully clothed beside a coil and a cooling bucket. Zeriskack was fined 100 dollars or thirty days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wittsburgh
Griner
Frank Zeriskack
Cleveland Tragedy: Man Drowns After Jump from Steamer
Harry C. Neilsen leaped from the steamer Great Western and swam into Lake Erie after stripping his overcoat. Several hundred feet out he drowned when he rejected a ropes thrown by a wheelsman. The incident occurred as the vessel neared harbor on November 26.
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Cleveland
Great Western
Harry C. Neilsen
Lake Erie
Ife
Lim
Man killed by flywheel at Fisher Brewery plant
Leonard, 29, visiting engineer at a federally owned facility in Reading, Pa, was crushed by a flywheel in the engine room of the Fisher Brewery. A prior oil splash warned workers as Leonard, from the coal regions with mining oiling experience, attempted to oil a shaft and was drawn into the belt. his body found in the oil-filled pit. Also note: Milwaukee boxing fans expect Pat Moran to fight Johnny Mendelsohn in a ten-round bout on November 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Reading
Leonard
Fisher Brewery
North Teending
Federal Goverment
Teonard
Mmines
Milwaukee
Pat Moran
New Orleans
Johnny Mendelsohn
Turning Point Finally Came For Mrs Purdy Healing Stomach And Kidneys
Mrs George W Purdy of 208 West South Street Frederic Ml recounts years of stomach pain, gastritis and kidney woes. After trying various medicines with no relief she finds improvement after starting Dreeo, noting her kidneys function and digestion improve and energy returns. Pearce's Pharmacy carries the remedy in the advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Purdy
South St
Miter
Creep T
Pearce
Tragedy as Boy Falls From Lounge in Bowmansville
In Bowmansville Virginia on November 26 a four year old boy, George Hoshour, died after slipping from a lounge where he slept. His mother had placed him on the lounge and stepped out briefly, returning to find him unconscious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowmansville
George
David Hoshour
Alleghenyville
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Insurancce
Miss Lela A. Gladish
A.D. Jones
MIS
Miss Reine Fletcher
GOAST
Balkans
Inarest
Sogta
Nish
Pwwaraperl Rch Ice
Steel Company
Dallin
New
Atom
Prish Pree
Andrew of
Sullivan
Iitemed Oi Moune Jey O
Ates
Railroad Board
Frederick Lady
Pdreco
Dr. Bell
Florida
St. Augustine
Dayton
Cocoa
West Palm Beach
Miami
Baltimore
Jacksonville
Frederick
Reamy's Travel Service Bureau
Valaz
Tohn
Ube
SUNS
Gaither Building
Plaza
Vreesias
Greenawalt’s
Suiropractic
DR. E. L. Kritzer
Central Trust
Market St
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