Judge grants Byron divorce from Mark Byron in Florida
Circuit Judge Barnes yesterday granted Mrs Jessie Cone Byron wife of Governor Fred P Byron a divorce after a hearing in chamber. Mrs Byron alleged her husband came home bearing paint and lipstick marks on his clothing and moved out of their Miami Beach home Sunday. Property settlement sets $37.50 a week. Byron denied the charges, did not engage an attorney to contest them.
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Barnes
Grant
Jessie Cone Byron
Fred P.ohe
Mark Byon
Chamber
Byron
Mil Beach
Roperty
Jealousy Held Slaying Motive In Florida Case
R A Britton, 55, of Winter Garden, held on first degree murder charge in the slaying of Troy Reddick, whose bullet pierced body was found near Polk City. Britton protested innocence as coroner's jury ruled Reddick died of pistol wounds. Motive cited as Britton's jealous anger over Reddick's attentions to Mrs Tennie Bray near Polk City.
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Britton
W. C. Norvell, Jr
Reddick
Tennie Bray
Norvell
Sand fantasies loom at Panama City Beach monster display
Harry Kingston, a veteran and former Virginia Power worker, crafted sand sculptures of a mammoth alligator with a child, a red-toothed sea serpent, a roaring lion and a ram on Panama City Beach. Kingston survived a 1200 volt shock that left him blind for two years and still speech impaired, though his hearing remains. He invites visitors to view the displays, following past shows in Atlantic City, Clearwater Beach, Pablo Beach, Jacksonville, and Coney Island.
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Panama City Beach
Harry Kingston
Virginia Power Co
Atlantic City
N. J
Clearwater Beach
Fla
Pablo Beach
Jacksonville
Coney Island
N. Y
Lynn Haven News Briefs Mention Doctor Seekers Lynn Haven
Dr R B McFeeters of Dowling Park Florida plans to move to Lynn Haven after arriving next week. The Pittsburgh native served in World War II with a captain’s commission in the Medical Corps. The piece also notes a church supper and a Baptist Young People's Union meeting with songs readings prayers and remarks led by Vida Creamer Glenda Seals reports.
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R. B. McFeeters
Dowling Park
Fla
Lynn Haven
McFeeters
Pittsburgh
Penn
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Medical Corps
U.S. Army
B.Y.P.U. the
Baptist Young Peoples Union
Vida Creamer
Jesus
Ruth Woodford
Osie Register
Elina Levering
Glenda Seals
Joint Birthday Celebration For Charles R Niquet
A Tuesday evening gathering honored Charles R Niquet on his 63rd birthday, with friends and family including Miles S Brown, Highland City residents, A L Barber, Thomas Engvold, Frank Luksie, Eugene Hartman, Alice Mehrof, V O Dimmitt, Margaret Fringer, Gola Bare, Ella Hunnikin, Ruth Woodford, Fred Van de Mark, Charlotte Niquet and Buster Niquet. The group sang Niquet’s favorite song and prayer was offered. a bouquet was presented to Mrs Eugene Hartman for her Aug 14 birthday.
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Charles R. Niquet
Miles S. Brown and Son
Harold
Highland City
A. L. Barber
Thomas Engvold
Frank Luksie
Eugene Hartman
Alice Mehrof
V. O. Dimmitt
Margaret Fringer
Gola Bare
Ella Hunnikin
Ruth Woodford
Fred van de Mark
Charlotte Niquet
Buster Niquet
Mr. Niquet
Engvold
Miles Brown
Country Editor keeps pace of predecessors in Americana
Country Editor by Henry Beetle Hodges offers a vivid portrait of a small town Massachusetts editor with a 2700 circulation. The book traces the people behind the sheet, including editor’s wife Betty and rural correspondents, with sharp astringent vignettes like a spider on a typing copy and a Vanderbilt telegram incident that ends with a door rule exception.
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Henry Beetle ‘Hough
Doubleday Doran
Massachusetts
Betty
City Office Closes During Clerk Brown Vacation
City clerk Mr. W. L. Brown and Mrs. Brown depart August 17 to 25 for a southern vacation. City offices will close in his absence. Visitors arrive for indefinite stays: Mrs. W. J. Parisa and children Lucille and Billy from Pittsburgh. Other locals travel to Lynn Haven and Pensacola while new property remodeling and academic posts are noted.
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W. L. Brown
Jacksonville
Gainesville
South
Florida
Mr. Brown
W.J. Parisa
Lucille
Billy
Pittsburgh
Joseph
Charles Bauer
J. B. Atkinson
Montgomery
Lynn Haven
M. R. Beck
Pensacola
C. D. Kelley
Don
Monroeville
Ala
T. G. Hinson
Bobbie
Mary Carolyn
Knoxville, Tenn
E. A. Haring
A. H. Brake
New York Avenue
Earl Sawyer
Addie Sawyer
Wildwood, Fla
Cadets Ordered Aboard Arkansas and Wyoming for Cruise
Seventeen Florida cadets reported to the battleships Arkansas and Wyoming in New York harbor on Monday for a training cruise. Those who qualify will become midshipmen in the Naval Reserve after ninety days of ordnance and navigation training and may receive commissions as Ensigns in the Naval Reserve. Applications for future cruises and Class V-6 enlistment are being taken at the South Jacksonville Naval Reserve Armory and Recruiting Office, with physicals and interviews daily 9 am to 4 pm.
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Florida
Arkansas
Wyoming
New York Harbor
Thos
Adams
Naval Reserve Armory
South Jacksonville
Naval Reserve
Navy
Naval Armory
Chamberlains Godesberg interview and Maurois findings
Neville Chamberlain described the Godesberg talks with Adolf Hitler as tense and violent with staged dispatches, and Hitler’s mood shifted to regret over a view. Andre Maurois’s Collier's Weekly serial reports on pre Munich tensions, French air defense delays, and Churchill’s 1935 warnings. Maurois notes France lagging in aircraft while Germany ramps up, with Maurois in the United States.
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Godesberg
Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Fuehrer
Chamberlain
Andre Maurois
Collier’s Weekly
France
Maurois
Paris
London
Maureis
Winston Churchill
Bridegroom seeks annulment after mock wedding revelation
Detroit AP reports Antonio Picone Jr. told a court two years after a fraternity mock wedding at an embalming school that a woman he believed to be a fellow student claimed to be his wife. He presented the letter and obtained the annulment.
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Detroit
Antonio Picone, Jr
Picone
New Yorkers End Up At Richmond Poe House By Error
An accent rich Virginia trip ends comically when a taxi ride to the Edgar Allan Poe house turns into a drop at the city poorhouse after a long ride with a taxicab driver. The stop prompts local officials to clarify transportation quirks for visitors.
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Richmon
Edgar Allen
Poe
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