Hadley’s Student Vision Fits Cubs’ Hack Wilson
The Springfield Republican notes Hadley’s imagined great footballer would resemble Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs in build and power. It contrasts Wilson with Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker, praising Ruth’s all around play and noting Wilson’s potential to lead in home runs, while predicting Wilson’s lasting theater-era fame.
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Springfield Republican
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Hack Wilson
Chicago Cubs
Babe Ruth
Wilson
Lajoie
Cleveland
Tris Speaker
Boston Red Box
Ruth
Milton Sills Remembered as Wholesome Star of Stage and Screen
The death of Milton Sills follows Lon Chaney, underscoring that many film stars are better role models than critics claim. Once a university mathematics professor, Sills led 20 years on Broadway and in silent films as a strong man with few distasteful roles. He married Doris Kenyon and, while he and their young son played tennis, he suffered a heart attack. He had begun a new phase of his career in talkies.
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Omaha World Herald
Milton Sills
Lon Chaney
University Mathematiccs
Sills
Anis
Doris Kenyon
Mall
Tap Dancing Gains Popularity and Market Shifts
The country has fallen for tap dancing, with tapping shoe sales up 150 percent over two years while top dancing equipment sales drop about 20 percent. The style appeals to both ear and eye, linking movement to rhythm, much like Spanish dancing.
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New York Evening World
Tap Dancing as Enjoyable Yet Lacks Harmony
The author contrasts tap dance with classical dance noting impressive energy and precision but criticizing the performance for restraint and a lack of audible rhythm with the music. They argue tap dancing is lively and enjoyable though not as classical, while questioning the dancer’s alignment with the music and the floor strikes.
Invention to register messages by telephone
The Kansas City Times reports a German invention that electrically records telephone messages. A similar English device shown two years ago linked a telephone to a phonographic unit that could answer calls, note that the mistress was away, and invite a message to be left before recording.
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Kansas City Times
Germany
England
London
Inventor’s Telephone Idea Aimed at After Hours Orders
An inventor described a telephone system intended for offices and stores to take orders after business hours or to relay opening times. It is unclear if the invention proved practical or reached commercial production. Meanwhile Germans appear to have gained an advantage over their English rivals.
Livestock Raising Becomes Big Business in Nebraska
Federal and state agricultural statisticians report Nebraska livestock marketing hit 8,837,190 meat animals last year, signaling a shift to large scale farming. The figure excludes local farm and city slaughter activity.
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Nebraska
A. E Anderson
Nebraska Livestock Growth Boosts State's Market Position
Nebraska farmers marketing livestock now total over nine million head for the year, surpassing Omaha receipts by 12.7 percent and underscoring the state's role as a gate way between range country and the corn belt. The dairy sector has expanded 75 percent in a decade, aided by cheap hay and grain and vast sweet clover pastures rising to over one million acres.
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Nebraska
Omaha
United States
Corn
Health Parlor Ad Promises Quick Sweat Bath Results
A sulphur steam or electric sweat bath treatment is advertised as producing results at once by Dr. Niblack. The notice includes a phone contact 86-T and is placed in Telegraph Want Ads, dated February 3 and 4.
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