Will Rogers Fame Began With a Wartime Wisecrack
The article recalls how Will Rogers began his rise to stardom thirty years earlier during a Hammerstein engagement with Buck McKee and a horse named Teddy. Rogers learned to chat with audiences after urging by his wife and Buck McKee, then juggled vaudeville to Broadway and finally film.
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Robert Burkhardt
United Press
Will Rogers
Hamerstein
Hammerstein's
Ocean
Europe
McKee
Rogers
Florenz Ziegfeld
Three Sections Lose Beloved Party Lines
Bloomville Republic and Fireside exchanges near Bloomville, Ohio, are linked under one central toll system after years of toll charges for inter-exchange calls. E L Ferrell, division superintendent of the Ohio Standard Telephone Co, says the move extends telephone service in the three communities.
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Bloomville
Republic
E L. Ferrell
Ohio Standard Telephone Co
Ambassadors Visit King George and Arctic Schooners Sail
Roger, admitted to the royal circle, lunched with King George and Queen Marvy after a long talk. Meanwhile two Vancouver schooners, the St Roach and Charles Edward, depart for the Arctic with supplies for Eskimos and RCMP posts as Canada readies outposts.
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Roger
King George
Marvy
Vancouver
St Roach
Charles Edward
Arctic
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Sequoia Log Shown in Park Exhibit Voyage Link
A section from a 1,400 year old Atwell Mill log, carved from a giant Sequoia, was displayed by the National Park Service at Sequoia National Park California. The log segment describes an ocean voyage aboard the Italian steamer Fek la and was shown at the request of show organizers for exhibition purposes.
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Sequoia National Park
Cal
Fekla
Atwell Mill
National Park Service
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