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Anniversaries and Birthdays Highlight 1850s to 1950s Figures
Page two’s Know America column lists anniversaries and birthdays of notable figures. Entries include Elizabeth L. Comstock, Andrew J. Dowsing, Russell N. Meyer, Edward Payson Ripien, Gertrude Atherton, Fred Kirby, and others. It also notes events such as the first Methodist Church dedication, the Loco-Foco party origins, a Liberty Statue flight prize, Ku Klux Klan parade in Jacksonville, and Orson Welles War of the Worlds broadcast, with several modern figures like Haley, Richards, McElroy, Williams, Kirk, Fentress, Geret, Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Si—Fred 3. Kirby
Woolworth
Brownsville
New York City
Locofoco
Loco-Foro
Moisant
New York Harbor
Jacksonville
Fla
Orson Wells
H. G. Wells
Nagy
Soviet Russia
William F. Haley
Elizabeth
Dickinson W. Richards
New York