Broadway After Dark and Writers of the Era
A 1935 McNaught Syndicate piece recalls Broadway nightlife from Columbus Circle to Herald Square, mixing street theatre with literary figures. It notes gangster fiction pioneer Charles Frances Coe, George Randolph Chester, Arthur Somers Roche, Kathleen Norris, Katherine Brush, and O. Henry, plus anecdotes on magazine pay, Harri s Merton Lyon, and dockside clashes with roughhouse games and rat battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Broadway
Columbus Circle
Herald Square
George Randolph Chester
Pelf
Wallingford
Arthur Somers Roche
Amherst Day Festival Highlights In Amherst Ohio
Amherst community prepares for Amherst Day on a Wednesday with a 9:30 a.m. opening featuring harmonica guitar and fiddle contests. The band will play in the town hall yard and seventeen events unfold on Church Street followed by a Harris Street Field ball game between the Ambheret Eagles and Old Time Mischka Meats with a $25 prize. Evening parades, a canceled ash can derby, fireworks at nine, and free dancing at F. O. E. Hall cap a full day.
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Amherst
Town Hall Yard
Church Street
Harris Street Field
Ambheret Eagles
Waldorf Lasers
Schedul
F. O. E. Hall
Jerome Methodist Church to celebrate centennial in 1842 era parade
In Marysville Ohio on August 25 the Jerome Methodist Episcopal Church will honor its centennial with a town parade as members ride to church on horseback and in covered buggies dressed in 100 year era costumes. An old reed organ will accompany the service and a birthday cake will be cut after a basket lunch following the ceremony. The congregation was founded seven years before 1842 and the present church stands forty five years old. The oldest member Mrs Mary Lane will attend the central observance led by Rev Louis B Higgins a student at Ohio Wesleyan University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst Business Men's Association
South Amherst
Association and People of
Amherst
Henrietta Reformed Church
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Carver
Elmer Johnson Post
American Legion and Auxiliary
Legion Rooms
Marysville
Jerome Methodist Episcopal Church
Jemore ‘Township
Mary Lane
Louis B. Higgins
Ohio Wesleyan University
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Charles Frances Coe
Socker
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Katherine Brush
Poe
O. Henry
Ainslee
Harris Merton Lyon
Chelsea
Ainsleée
Maquin's
West Street
Dock Wallopers
Owney Madden
Gilbert White
Bryan Curli-Locks
Chateau Gaillard
Scott
America
McNaught Syndicate
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
THE
Lorain County Savings & Trust CO
Elyria, Ohio
Ohio
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
B. A. Jenne
Cleveland St
Central Book Store
Altar Society
St. Joseph Catholic Church
George Menz
Martin Nelson
J. J. Ryan
Jos. Sposato
Alex Dybincki
Frank Franklin
Glen Horst
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ida May Devries
Cleveland Avenue
Robert Cromwell
Ruth
Bobbie
Harris Street
Terre Haute
Oak Point
Ind
Reynolds
Smithville
Hospital News
Lillian Sprinkle
la Grange
William Hintz
Evergreen Club
Elmer Bischoff
Jenne Road
Adam Schroeder
Betty Lou
John Wurmmest
Cedar Point
James Keenan
Mildred Wragg
Cleveland
Sam Wragg
George Garthe
Lakeside
Robert Hasenflne
Richard
J. Menz
Schroll
Cavalier
Bergeo Coal
West Virginia
Ohio Coal
Schroll Coal
Elyria
H. E. Hengen
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Toledo
Mrs
J. M. Hengen
Hazel Street
Broad ST
C.H. Merthe
Merthe W& Co
Axminster
Regularis
Candlewick
Vy Price
Ssieres
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