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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1934
Page
6
Marion reports Roy Roberts, a 61 year old farmer, celebrating his eighth honeymoon near town. He married here to his eighth wife, with 75 year old Justice A Martin officiating. The wedding followed four previous ceremonies by the groom. Further details could not be obtained.
The judge quotes Roberts as saying the marriage was his happiest so far while noting his wife hails from Marion. He calls Agron the sheik of the area and says Roberts never intended to stay single. Five of Roberts' former wives survive, and the judge hints at past marriages not lasting but warns him to stay put now.
Baltimore firemen battle multiple blazes at Atlantic Packing Company warehouse. Two weeks earlier a fatal five alarm fire caused one death and eleven injuries. Repeated outbreaks blamed on smoldering rags. residents dismayed, some alarms ignored.
Geo Raft stars in Limehouse Blues at the Colonial Theatre with Anta May Wong and Jean Parker as leading ladies. Wong appears as an oriental cafe dancer in Raft's Limehouse venture tied to smuggling and river piracy, with the picture wrapping today.
Irene Dunne and Donald Woods draw crowds as thousands pack the Maryland to see the Warner film version of the stage hit Sweet Adeline. The showing marks the last performances today.
The Fox film Music In the Air features Jerome Kern and Arthur Hammerstein songs. Gloria Swanson stars as a prima donna with a deft light comedy touch, and John Boles provides strong vocal support in the lead opposite Swanson.
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician and physiologist credited as the discoverer of galvanism, the principle behind current electricity, whose experiments with frog muscles helped launch electrical science.
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