Death of Dame May Whitty Follows Broken Lights
Report notes Dame May Whitty lived in a Hollywood apartment on DeLongpre Avenue. She complained that broken stairway lights forced a dark climb, and she died the day the lights were finally lit. The column includes lighthearted sketches about Broadway figures and gossip from midtown venues, with names like Shaw, Hoover, and Muriel Hanley appearing in vignette form.
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Dame May Whitty
DeLongpre Avenue
Hollywood
Lana Turner
Rita Hayworth
Dorothy Lamour
5Th Avenue Brass Rail
Copacabana
Copa Jotharios
Muriel Hanley
Colorado War Over Zebulon Pike Remains Continues
Colorado Springs rejects Sackets Harbor peace offer to move Pike remains to Pike's Peak. Chamber leader Doug Crouch demands the bones stay in the general's grave as the town pushes a monument project. A letter and a sample earth box from Sackets Harbor provoke mixed reactions locally.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Sackets Harbor
N. Y
Zebulon Pike
New York State
Pike
Pike's Peak
J. N. McCullough
Doug ‘Crouch
Chamber of Cormimercé
Colorado
Sackets Harbor Earth
Denver Post
E.W. Dennison
New York
Dennison
Pikehow
Howard N. Yates
Contractor Paints Delaware River Bridge With Wife's Washing Machine
Trenton contractor Dewey D Agostino uses his wife's washing machine to mix daily paint for the 720 foot Delaware river bridge between Milford New Jersey and Upper Black Eddy Pennsylvania. The Delaware river joint toll bridge commission had required an agitator for the job. D Agostino said he paid $400 for the new machine and work proceeds on schedule.
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Trenton
N. J
Delaware River
Milford
Upper
Black Eddy
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
Dewey D'Agostino
D'Agostino
Woodrow Wilson Nicknames Revealed in Wesleyan Photo
In Middletown Connecticut a composite Wesleyan University portrait shows Woodrow Wilson labeling faculty with nicknames such as Redhead Winch Van Benny Our Bobs and Little Billee The self designation Woodrow appears on the image with the note about a faculty with less deadwood The photo, donated by George W Davison a Wesleyan alumnus and trustee, surfaces from the 1880s era.
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Middletown. Conn
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
van Benny
Billee
Wilson
Wesleyan University
Woodrow
Wesleyan
University
George W. Davison
New York
Woman’s summer wardrobe brightens with at home tricks
The article offers simple at home fashion tips to refresh summer clothing. It covers tinting gloves with fabric scraps, adding ruffles at the wrists, creating camisoles under sheer tops, lengthening slips, and updating dresses with new buttons, capes, boleros, and belts. It suggests swapping hat ribbons and adding detachable flowers to hats for quick style updates.
Pretty slip-on gloves with lace and organdie trim
Pretty, feminine and very new slip-on gloves transform into dress-up accessories when edged with eyelet embroidery and trimmed with lace. Available in fine dreskin or suede leathers and fabrics, they pair with hats, jabots, or fichus for a frothy organdie look.
Wax Finish for Knotty Pine Walls
The technique suggests applying a thin even coat of paste wax after the pene wax dries about twenty minutes. Rub with soft cloths to reach a smooth dull gloss. Finish smoothness mainly depends on prior sanding and rubbing of the wood surface.
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Vic Earlson
Lindy
Shaw
George Bernard- Shaw
The
London Times
Joan
Shakespeare
G. Bernard Shaw
London
Shelley
Hoover
FBI
Alcatraz
Broadway
Hassenpheffer
Collier's
Avenue U
Bklyn
New Hampshire
Daniel Webster
H. Hughes
RKO
Paul Small
Paul
Joe Frisco
Gene Fowler
Roland Young
Joe E. Lewis
Basil Rathbone
Arthur Murray
J. Ellinson
Russia
Wallace
Seb Pike's Bones
York
Denver
Market Street
Swearing
Nugents
K . St
Resorts
Manila Hemp
By Ertta
Haley
Lewbrook Lowell
Roger C. Whitman
Hammond
Talking Pines
Jim Pollard
Hank Luisetti
Allyn Beals
Montgomery Street
Utter
Inunkennes
San Francisco
Kellogg's Powder
Warner's Remedy Co
Warren, Pa
Smokey
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