Gillilan's Early Back Seat in Newspaper Circulation
Strickland Gillilan of California and Indiana once served as back seat circulation manager for a Marion paper where he later worked as city editor. Now famous as lecturer and poet, he planned a Winona Lake appearance on August 5, with reminiscences of his early years and a humorous, moving reading.
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Strickland W. Gillilan
California
Baltimore
Richmond
Ind
Kiasion
Gillilan
Winona Lake
Gil- Jilan
Old Tribune
Leader Tribune
Marion
Agin
Finnigin
Carrie Nation
Kansas
Amateur’s lead falters as jealousy tests love on stage
In a Comedy Club production a hopeful amateur battles nerves and a jealous rival as his fiancée supports him from the box. The second act reveals the strain of performance and passion, ending with a vow to improve and a partner’s faith in his future.
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Comedy Club
Mng
Tie
Winona Lake Opens June 30 With Summer Events
Winona Lake Indiana announces a June 30 opening for its season. The Assembly and Bible conference run into late August, followed by the Model Chautauqua and Lyceum programs. Exhibits include cot tagers, concessions, and a full summer college, with Nat W. Brigham presenting jazzed screenings and color cinema.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Winona College
Seasion
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
International Lyceum Association
Sense of propriety blocks former spouse as lead
A beautiful actress refuses to hire her ex husband as the leading man. The manager argues he is a splendid actor but she cites the awkward public perception and the ongoing alimony payments, insisting on someone else for the role.
Averted Tragedy at Sadowa Era Cafe
A retired Austrian forester Kern nearly shot King William I and Bismarck at a Vienna area cafe three weeks after Sadowa. His wife restrained him, preventing a decisive act that could have altered European history and the fate of the German empire.
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Europe
Kern
Sadowa
Birsdorf
Vienna
William of
Prussia
Bismarck
The Evolution of Coinage Through Ancient Civilizations
The article traces money from weighed metals to stamped coins. It notes early marks in Assyria Babylonia with gold and silver pieces, then credits Ionia Greece in the seventh century BCE for standardizing weight and value via city seals. It tracks diffusion from Ionia to Greece and Italy and mentions Babylonia’s gold shekels bearing state arms.
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Assyria
Babylonia
Iona
Christ
Greece
Italy
Dairy complaint clerk hears cow contentment query
A dairy’s complaint clerk received a call from a woman posing as Mrs Mixin asking if the cows are contented. The clerk, jittery, later reports that no complaint has been filed by any cow and reassures the caller nothing is amiss.
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Mixin
Couple Survive Five Days at Sea Off Philippine Coast
Arthur L. Young and his wife, aboard a launch near Leyte and Siquijor, drifted five days without food or water. A single can of milk for their child proved life saving. They reached Manila weak but recovered quickly after rescue.
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Arthur L. Young
Leyte
Siquijor
Philippine
Manila
Mrs. Young
Longest living woman dispute between Germany and Bulgaria
A Bulgarian villager from Baba Vasilka claims to be older than the German born 1785 Dutkiewitz, born May 1784 per Greek church records. The Bulgarian woman, now elderly on her birth farm, lives with her 99 year old son who still works the land.
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Germany
Bulgaria
Oldest Writer of the Age Meets Begging Stranger
Alfred H. Lewis encounters a stranger in a restaurant who praises him lavishly as the greatest writer of the age and sits with him. The man slides a card asking for ten dollars, which Lewis answers with a brief handwritten reply refusing the request.
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Alfred H. Lewis
Lewis
A Mesalliance
A London Opinion line quotes a mother defending her son who is fond of art while a speaker mocks such marriages as unsuitable in a compact cultural note. The fragment reflects social attitudes toward marriage and artistic pursuits in a city periodical.
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Art. Jones
Anthor
London
ITS CLASS WILL DRIVES EFFORT AS WILL AND DRIVE
A philosophical remark contrasts the will as a great engine of effort with some men likening it to a donkey engine. The quote reflects on personal motivation and the nature of perseverance.
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Carrie
Missouran
Rose O. M. Scarbrough
Scarbrough
Gillan
Jourt
Zephyr
Fie
New York Press
King Wit
Blemarck
Babylon
A’jectoustomers
Baie T. Ciory
Ask
Victor Safe & Loge
Ohio
Pie McCall Co
New York City
Russiaville Observer
McCalls Magazine
McCalls
The
Russiaville
Supscrive Todaay
Kokomo
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