Betty Brown Becomes Betrothed After Hospital Return
Betty Brown recovers from a dance career setback after an auto crash. George Harris funds her hospital costs and arranges a home with Mrs Hogan near his restaurant as she eyes marriage. Betty, now recovering, agrees to follow his plan while resisting full commitment.
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Betty Brown
Andy Adair
Andy
George Harris
George
Betty
Mrs. Hogan
Mr. Hogan
Worthy
Abrs. Hogan
Hogans
Youth of England Pleads for Change in Business Leadership
London reports a new wave of junior bankers and industrials demanding faster promotion and renewal in Britain's firms. They condemn aging directors for policy stagnation, cite wartime losses, and point to American praise of youth as a model, urging bold moves to revive the economy.
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London
J. P. Morgan
England
Britain
Ufe
Man sentenced to church and sobriety in Indianapolis
Otis Owens aged 38 must attend church every Sunday for six months and stay sober or pay ten dollars plus costs and serve thirty days in the Indiana State Farm. Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron handed down the sentence after Owens admitted completing a 40 day term for drunkenness and said he had not attended church since boyhood.
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Indianapolis
Otis Owens
Indiana State Farm
Clifton R. Cameron
Owens
Sweden to arm army with Colt machine guns
Sweden announces future military equipment upgrades selecting the American Colt model to replace the Schwarzlose gun in service since 1914. The Colt is cited as superior in every respect, notably in firing rate about twice that of the German gun.
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Stockholm
German Skilled Labor Sees Rising Wages and Living Costs
A Bruins Reichsbank report shows German skilled workers' weekly wages rising from 38.68 marks in March 1925 to 52.10 marks in October 1928, while living costs climbed 39 percent since 1913-14 and 52.3 percent by 1928. It notes unemployment and labor disputes persist, but savings deposits grow, and living standards for many workers have returned toward prewar levels.
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Berlin
G. W. J. Bruins
Reichsbank
Bruins
United States
England
Germany
Riches fuel beauty project in St Charles Illinois
Delora Angell, heir to John W Gates fortune, plans a civic beautification in St Charles Illinois. She married Lester Norris in 1923 and, with uncle Edward J Baker, funds a theater, golf club, bridge over Fox River, a new hotel with pipe organ, a $500 400 bank building, a $200 000 memorial community house, an airport, fire dept upgrades and riverbank landscaping.
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ST. Charles
America
Delora Angell
John W
Gates
Lester Norris
Tester
Delra
Norris
Edward J. Baker
Main St
Fox River
Brookside High to Become First Grade School in Lorain County
Brookside High School will join Lorain County first grade high schools when the 1929 1930 term opens in September. The school awaits a state charter after inspection. it has added a science room library upgraded offices with a safe, a manual training room and showers. Enrollment now 30, expected 70, with two upper grades to be added next fall. Brookside, seven miles north of Elyria, was heavily damaged in the 1924 Lorain tornado but rebuilt and improved by the board.
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Brookside High School
Lorain County
R. P. Vaughn
State Department of Education
Vaughn
Lorain High School
Hat signed by notables at Sesquicentennial Exposition
Cal E C Smead values a Panama hat at 8000 dollars and insures it for 4000. The hat’s worth lies in the over 1000 signatures from famous figures gathered when he was chief radio announcer at the exposition, including General Pershing Rudolph Valentino Lon Chaney Suzanne Lenglen and Jack Dempsey.
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Ventury
Cal
E. C. Smead
Lloyds
Smead
Philadelphia
Panama
General Pershing
Rudolph Valentino
Lon Chaney
Suzanne Lenglen
Jack Dempsey
Record Wind Speeds at Mount Washington 1878
A record-breaking wind traveled at about 140 miles per hour was recorded at Mount Washington New Hampshire in 1878.
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Mount Washington, N.hl
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Central Press Association
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Mr. Harris
Youth OF
Sweden
Phillips’ Drug Store
Edward G. Yes
T Wei
Debra
Mrs. Norris
Europe
Thery
Norrises
Lake Forest
Angela
Crawfordsburn
Brookside High
Brookside School
Elyria
Det
Victor
Peoples Store
Middle Ave
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