Sophie Tucker Still Headlining After All These Years
New York report notes Sophie Tucker remains a top vaudeville headliner despite decades on stage. The piece surveys her longevity, public image, and offstage persona, contrasting her robust career with Broadway pretenders and detailing contemporaries in Hollywood and media life.
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New York
Sophis Tucker
Middle West
Sophie
London
Elsie Janis
Jogless Beggars
Texas Fever and Show Biz Echoes Across The Nation
A feature compares Texas charm and its famous press image with Manhattan glamour. It notes J Frank Doble’s Texas focus and Earl Carroll’s praise of Texas beauties. References Jessie Reed’s San Antonio roots and Ginger Rogers as a Texas village native. Beekman Place, riverfront life, and yacht tie-ups are pictured as Manhattan’s elite scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
J. Frank Doble
Pamipas
Earl Carrol
Evefull
Jessie Reed
San Antonio
Ginger Rogers
Beekman Place
Manhattan
Cantonese Leaders Defy Central Government Election of Chen Chi Tang
Hong Kong July 14 Cantonese leaders vow to resist Central Government efforts to dissolve their administration and to defend their autonomous regime. They elected Gen Chen Chi Tang as commander in chief of massed Cantonese armies in a joint session of southwest councils. Central government reportedly ordered Yu Han Mou to advance against Cantonese forces along the Kwangtung border.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Kwangtung Province
Chen Chi-Tang
Centra
Chen
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Southwest
Yu Han-Mou
Kwangtungwanes
Settlement of Hamilton estate transfers to Lumbers heirs
Greensburg Indiana reports that after forty years of administration a 480a farm estate of Thomas Morlan Hamilton, who died December 18, 1895, was settled in Decatur Circuit Court with papers filed in December. The estate now passes to his granddaughter Elizabeth Lumbers and her brother Lennard Lumbers Jr of Toronto.
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Greensburg
Ind
Decatur Circuit Court
Thomas Morlan Hamilton
Elizabeth Lumbers
Lennard Lumbers, Jr
Toronto
Felons Give Up Bonus in Joliet Prison
Four hundred inmates at the Illinois State and Stateville prisons surrendered bonus checks to prison officials. Convicts who leave money on deposit may spend $3 weekly in the commissary, while funds held for families are not allowed.
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Joliet
Illinois
Stateville
Jungle patrols urged in Malaya to curb big game
Sir Thats Comya Platt, on a tour for the Society for the Preservation of Empire Fauna, suggests jungle flying squads to control elephant and tiger activity in British Malaya after visiting Ceylon and Malaya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
Malaya
Thats Comya- Platt
Ceylon
Society For the Preservation of Empire
Thief With Red Face Escapes After Grab At Edith Billingslea
Police hunted a man whose face was described as red after Edith Billingslea said she slapped him as he leaped from a car and snatched her pocketbook.
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Toledo
Edith Billingslea
Modern streamlined Mercury train dazzles Detroit Cleveland run
A luxurious 80 mph experimental Mercury train debuts from Cleveland to Detroit, showcasing air conditioning, electric eye door openings, rotunda vestibules, and near silent ride. Executives aboard praised comfort and new technology while observers tracked speedometer readings and noted a stone thrown near Brownhelm.
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Detroit
Ougutes
Mr. Williamson
Cleveland
Williamson
J. O. Eaton
Eaton Manufacturing Co
EB. B. Greene
Cleveland Cliffs Tron Co
Toledo
Showa
West Albany
Beech Grove
Indianapolis
Henry Dreyfuss
Trayn
Joseph S. Hall
The
Road
Mercury
Willamson
Econtal
Brownhelm
Amherst Social and Club Meetings Tonight
Tonight in Amherst multiple groups meet at town venues. Auxiliary of the American Legion holds final summer meeting at Town Hall with hostesses named. Also Jessamine Lodge and Concordia Club plan regular sessions at Odd Fellow Hall and church parlors respectively.
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Amherst
Auxiliary of the American Legion
Town Hall
Arthur Hamel
William Witker
Hugh Tompkins
Jessamine Lodge
Daughters of Scotland
Odd Fellow
Concordia Club
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Prizh Baby Wins Prize At Salt Lake Show
Lamar Jessy Warnick, a 21 month old boy born with his heart and several internal organs on the opposite side of his body, captured a health prize at a local baby show in Salt Lake. The case underscores rare congenital situs inversus with potential medical implications known to specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prizh
Salt Lake
Lamar Jessy Warnick
Chico Council Grants Gratuitous License After Fair
In Chico California the city council approved a gratuitous license for the Butte County Spring Fair and Fiesta sponsored by the Chico Chamber of Commerce. The license was issued after the event had taken place.
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Chico
Cal
Butte County
Chico Chamber of Commerce
Mercury-Designed Train Promises Unprecedented Lighting
A new train designed with an innovative lighting system aims to be the most atlanticly lit rail vehicle. It features vapor heat with advanced thermostatic control and tube radiation throughout, marking a bold step in rail tech.
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C. O. McIntyre
General Pershing
Tuscan
Geo
Hollywood
Hank Wales
Kent
Robert Young
Waldorf
Young
Masonic Temple
Middle Ave
Williikely
Tyre
McNaught Syndicate
Puritan
Schroll
Rouse
Warm Springs
M ‘Jm Jameson
Halltherbuck
L. W. Land
R. B. Holmes
Michigan Central
Fred F. R. Rietel
A. VW. Urich
Hall
F. W. Lorg
Villa
Hundredoo
Amherst By
Jenne
Ladies’ Aid Society
South Amherst
M Irs. Waldron
North Main Street
Cleveland Avenue
Robert Woklever
Waldrons
Walter Mischka
Wohlevers
Mayme Blum
Mary Martha
Congregational Church
Turesn Bupper
Marion Teele
Helen and
Minnie Sabiers
Albin Wagner
Wood Faris
Kilmer Gall
J. R. MacKenzie
H. G. Battenhouse
Clarence Dear
Bishon
MacKenzie
Louis Zabel
Knights of Pythias
Association
Riverside Lodge
Roosevelt-Davey Club
A. G. Stiwald
A. R. Tolhurst
Louis Lieb
Manuel Ladrach
Louis Merchant
Ex Dybzinski
Elyria Avenue
Circle Three
St. Ann’s Society
St. Joseph's Church
Holy Name Society of
George Menz
South Main Street
Katharine Lawless
A. P Roth
Clayton Young
Katherine Lawless
A. P. Roth
G. G. Aschbach
Clarence Brown
Canada
Orne Grugel
Sne
Bobby
Tives
North Carolina
Cincinnati
Zoo
E. Keisler
Katharine Boardman
Barbara
Williams
Aviz
A. C. Werner
Elyria
Pocahontas
Lake Avenue Coal CO
Lake Avenue
Marshall Furnaces
Sales and Service
W. H. Siler
Joe's Yankee Shoe Repair
Earl
Cheapside
LS Eee
Lodi St
Rosey Shelvador
Day's Hardware
Chronicle-Telegram
In Tao
HELDS
Lorain County Savings & Trust CO
Elyria, Ohio
Amherst, Ohio
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