Lights and Voices on Broadway in 1929
A Bell Syndicate overview notes that talking pictures expose weak singing voices and misaligned lips, while stars like Jack Johnson drift from glory. It highlights beggars on subways, Walter Winchell’s tale of John Farrow’s Wall Street rise, Flo Ziegfeld discovering Louise Peck, and the flood of amateur manuscripts reaching New York publishers.
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New York
Florenz Ziegfeld
Louise Peck
Wall Street
Flo
New York Daily
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Aged love poisoner on trial in Yugoslavia shock tale
Vienna reports Anna Pistova a ninety two or ninety three year old woman to face trial in Pancevo for supplying poison to wives seeking to kill husbands. Six wives who used her love potions and became widows will be tried with her. Tales claim she caused sixty husband deaths and affected many others while she built a laboratory at her home and sold tonics laced with arsenic. Her defense says medicines were proper tonics and not responsible for misuse.
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Vienna
Anna Pistova
Pancevo
Yugoslavia
Anna
Vladimirovac
Belgrade
United States
Rumania
Pistova
Florence Maybrick
Maybrick
Six Men Seek Moon Trip by Rocket
Paris reports six men have applied to ride in a rocket that could reach the moon within a year. Professor Oberth and Robert Esnault-Peletier describe dangers including failure to clear Earth, striking the moon, or atmospheric destruction on descent. If a passenger survives, he could become a world hero with new astronomical insights.
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Moon
Paris
Professor Oberth
Robert Esnault- Peletier
Oberth
Earth
France
Lindbergh
Esnault-Peletier
Cat Hunts Out and Kills Copperheads in Maryland
Mount Savage Maryland resident Miss Katie McNamee reports her cat Tabby named Puff has killed eight copperheads this season. Snakes range from 14 inches to 2 feet. most are brought to the house. Puff remains tame and affectionate indoors and acts as an alarm clock by meowing at 5 a.m. Miss McNamee’s cliffside, rocky home is snake-prone, with Puff often signaling the morning wakeup.
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Mount Savage
Katie McNamee
Tabby
Miss McNamee
McNamee
Tall Belgians More Likely Among Criminals
Belgian psychologist Dr Vervaeck analyzed about 25 000 individuals and found the tall segment of the male population is overrepresented among criminals. The study classed people into shorts middles talls and very talls with criminals showing higher proportions in the taller categories.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Doctor Vervaeck
Village of Huntleigh Incorporated in St Louis County
One Street Housing 100 Incorporated as Village One Street Housing 100 Incorporated as Village St Louis Mo One street fifteen families numbering with servants less than 100 persons five trustees and a bridle clubhouse as town hall comprise the newest village in St Louis county The Village of Huntleigh located on Denny road was recently incorporated by the County court to avoid the possibility of annexation by some other community Trustees who were appointed by the court will call an election soon for the purpose of choosing a mayor.
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St. Louis
St. Louis County
Huntleigh
Denny Road
Man Builds Tower to Solve Parking Problem
Sandusky entrepreneur J. E. Morton heads Parking Tower corporation. A five story steel tower using a ferris wheel system stores cars on suspended platforms, with ground space of 17 feet 8 inches by 25 feet. The ten car tower moves spaces to street level and could scale to sixty cars.
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Sandusky
Ohio
America
J. E. Morton
Morton
Parking Tower Corporation
Ninety Year Old Veteran Challenges Jersey License Ban
Ninety year old Civil War veteran Uncle Jimmy Clark of Cape May defies the New Jersey motor vehicle department ban on renewing his license based on age. He vows to prove mental alertness and physical capacity by entering contests and even challenges Commissioner Dill to test his faculties. He boasts he could outfish President Hoover and claims sharper sight and hearing than younger drivers.
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Cape May
N. J
Jimmy” Clark
State
Motor Vehicle Department
Jimmy
Hoover
Cripple Performs Housework in Tennessee Home
In Knoxville, G. C. Cloud, slightly crippled, remains at home to handle the housework while his wife works in a factory to support the family. Mrs. Cloud praises her husband as an excellent housekeeper and Cloud credits his wife as the capable provider.
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Knoxville, Tenn
G. C. Cloud
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Felix
MR. Featherhead
Western Newspaper Union
Assonne
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Fale
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