John Holmes Named Swift Company President
John Holmes, who began as a Swift & Company messenger boy 31 years ago, has risen to president of the company. He succeeds G F Swift, son of the founder, as head of an organization employing 60,000 people in livestock dressing and nationwide meat and dairy distribution. Mr Swift remains active as vice chairman of the board.
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John Holmes
Swift & Company
G. F. Swift
Swift
Two-Week-Old Baby Shows Early teeth in San Francisco
Mercedes Angels of San Francisco possessed two teeth at birth and now at two weeks old she exhibits two teeth, highlighting unusual early dentition.
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Mercedes Angels of
San Francisco
Mayors Confront WPA Relief Burden At Boston Conference
Harry L. Hopkins addressed the Boston mayors conference on The National Program. Mayors from leading U S cities attended and concluded relief costs in major cities would rise this winter rather than fall.
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Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Boston
Mass
United States
Hen Spectacles Bring Smarts to Chickens
A humorous note describes chickens wearing metal spectacles, claiming the new eyewear makes fowls appear wiser. The piece highlights the novelty of educated hens and the spectacle trend in poultry.
Hoaxes, pride and panic in a pair of old newspaper tales
In a MacLean clan hoax a Toronto editor’s planted clipping triggers a clan battle over Culloden legends. A New York Herald zoo hoax sparks citywide fear before revealing a cautionary moral. A long-running anti religious hoax letter circulates with modern English prose and varying copy chains.
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Charles Langton Clarke
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Culloden
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Toronto
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New York City
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Central Park Zoo
Chester A. Arthur
Samuel J. Tilden
James Gordon Bennett
The
Herald
Thomas B. Connery
Jesus Christ
France
United States Post Office Department
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