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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1936
Page
5
The fat man visits stores in a Far South resort seeking tropical clothes but finds none in his size. A frank clerk finally admits only collar buttons and handkerchiefs fit him, highlighting comic misfit shopping in a tropical retreat.
In Hudson New York the theater erupts as the manager orders the author to face the crowd. The playwright protests he cannot speak, but the manager pushes him toward the curtain and commands him to go on and apologize.
Amos Kilgore Gordon,(Standard Oil) owner and Parkersburg resident, buys remaining Blennerhasset Island acres and plans a public park. The Ohio river island, linked to Harmon Blennerhassett and Aaron Burr in 1806 conspiracies, will be cleared and opened to visitors as a landmark of early American development.
Lester Dent and Kenneth Sien plan a 50 foot schooner voyage from La Plata to locate a 3800 pound gold table said to be aboard a sunken Caribbean galleon. They believe the Spanish Cuba governor hid and cast gold into a table before his ship sank near a coral island. If unsuccessful, Dent may seek Inca silver in Honduras.
In Samburu district Kenya Colony headmen told a British investigator that taunts by native girls sparked about 50 murders. They urged early marriage as a remedy but age rules under Sikileko forbid it. The officer left 15 policemen to back local headmen until the killers are found.
Joseph, a 300 pound dealer in strange and rare animals, is famed as the only man to bring a duckbill platypus into captivity. He has presented an Australian city with the largest chimpanzee in captivity and travels widely collecting animals. Born in Bombay and educated in China, he is an Australian citizen.
John Golden recalls Charles Frohman’s legendary waiter in London and New York then notes the old Arsenal station’s role in Central Park history. Other items include Ed Hart’s lighter mix up, a PR ploy gone awry, and Robert Van Rosen receiving a Tibetan dagger worth over 5,000 dollars from Nicholas Roerich.
J B Dyer of Frackville built a star shaped table for the Dionne quintuplets with each place offset and a gold letter marking each girl s seat. Dr Allan Ray Dafoe, the Dionne doctor, commended the unique design in a letter to Dyer.
Leipzig introduces new serial luggage that is lightweight strong and highly impact resistant. The streamlined bags return to shape after rough use and fold neatly with seamless construction for compact storage while aloft. Zipper fasteners run around the full circumference replacing traditional locks and hinges.
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