Efficiency and the Girl in the Classified Office
In the Miror classifieds office an efficiency expert arrives to reshuffle staff and rules but Mary Connolly handles his glare with wit. A tough old woman pushes for a better ad asking for a room and Mary learns to write it fully while the man hints he will hire her as his assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Connolly
Susie McGinnis
Susanne
Mary
John
Serpent
Barton
Mary Conwell
Elaborate Fur Trimmed Coats and Evening Suits Fashion
The piece surveys 1929 fashion emphasizing fur trims on coats and suits for formal wear. It highlights black and white fur contrasts, long plaited skirts, and lavish borders, noting Patou’s rose-beige broadcloth ensemble and white fur accessories.
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Patou
Mroadcloth
Cat torn to pieces by starving seagulls in Skegness
In Skegness Scotland a hungry flock of seagulls gathered on a roadway due to bad weather and scraps. A cat attacked by the birds was killed within ten minutes and its flesh devoured by the birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skegness
Scotland
Fisherman Lands Trout With Bird In Its Mouth
Earl Ansell accomplished a notable feat while fishing as he caught a nine inch trout that had a bird in its mouth. The wing protruded from the fish as it swallowed the prey, and the bird appeared only partly feathered.
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Earl Ansell
Court silences wife in Des Moines divorce decree
Des Moines Iowa judge Lester L Thompson issued a restraining order in a divorce case against Mrs Josephine Hawkins. He barred her from speaking to or harassing her husband Nelson Hawkins and ordered her to let him leave with his belongings. Hawkins alleged cruel and inhumane treatment and threats of death. The couple married in Baltimore July 21 1924 and have lived in Des Moines for over a year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lester L. Thompson
Josephine Hawkins
Nelson Hawkins
Thompson
Hawkins
Miracle Lightning Strikes Budapest Calvary
A thunder storm in the Budapest suburb of O Buda split a calvary statue at a Wayside cross. The Christ figure remained unharmed while the unrepentant thief was shattered. A perpetually lit lamp under the cross stayed burning and crowds search for fragments amid belief of protection from lightning.
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Budapest
Calvary
O Buda
Christ
Hungary
Rooster Theft Ends With Four Arrests in Canton
In Stark county a deformed beaked rooster sparked a theft case. A farmer near Smoketown reported twelve missing birds, deputies recovered one on a meat stand, and James Merritt along with Sherman Schilling Jess Deardorff and Delbert Deardorff were arrested after confessing to the thefts.
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Bill
Canton
Ohio
Ed Gibson
Stark County
Ben Sterner
Smoketown
James Merritt
Merritt
Sherman Schilling
Jess and
Delbert Deardorff
Bunny Escapes Rattles and Python At Nebraska State Fair
A white rabbit is placed in a pen with a 15 foot python and rattlesnakes at the Lincoln Nebraska state fair. The rabbit bites the python after confusing it and the keeper returns the animal unharmed.
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Bunny
Python Lincoln
Dog Goes to Jail With Master in Kansas City
Pearl Couch faced a driving while intoxicated charge and was jailed after a brief legal process. His bull dog Prince allegedly defied police by refusing to be separated from Couch, and the animal reportedly shared a cell with him. Couch appeared for trial without Prince and received a $25 fine along with a 30 day sentence on the municipal farm.
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Kansas City
Pearl Couch
Prince
Couch
Woman Kills Giant Rattler in Lynchburg Area
Mrs Lucy Stinnette of Lynchburg Virginia killed a rattlesnake on Chestnut Mountain that had 28 rattles She presented the rattles as proof of the age of the serpent reflecting local wildlife reporting in the area
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Lynchburg
Lucy -Stinnette
Chestnut Mountain
Uncle Saves Niece From Fire Sparks
Lawrence Decker, twelve years old, rescued Lorraine McGinn, four, when her skirts ignited from bonfire sparks, preventing serious injury in New York.
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New York
Lawrence Decker
Lorraine McGinn
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Efficiency
Daily Mirror
Milady
Mere
Palis
Bhick
Julia Bottomley
Western
Nton
Rooster
Freak
Bayer
Bayer Aspirin
Cuticura
Malden
Mass
Seneca
Chas. H. Fletcher
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
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