Ringling Brothers Wage Row Delays Big Top Show
In Scranton Pennsylvania performers and laborers clash over a 25 percent pay cut to keep the show running. Mediators meet with Ringling North and AF of A officials as about 100 performers side with reduction while laborers threaten to cart gear and animals to winter quarters in Florida. Two Wilkes-Barre shows were canceled. A Tulsa minister sues a theatre claiming show bank nights damaged church collections.
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Scranton
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Jess Day
Ralph Whitehead
American Federation of Actors
Fred J. Hueaster
John Ringling North
North
Sarasota
Florida
Wilkes-Barre
Brandstand
Corns shed off with magic like remover advert
An advertisement touts E-72 Kom Remover as a quick painless solution to corns. It claims the dead skin softens and the core comes out easily. The copy notes widespread use in drug stores and a 35 cent price.
Bandit Abducts Student After Attack Near Wichita
An armed bandit accosted Rosan Na Sandberg, 21, honorary cadet major of Kansas State College ROTG, and her escort Mark Cain Jr. near Wichita. He lashed Cain to a tree, abducted the girl, attacked her, and left her for dead in a field. Sandberg is expected to recover. Cain is pictured.
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Rosanna Sandberg
Kansas State College
R.O.T.G
Mark Cain, Jr
Lyons, Kas
Wichita
Cain
Sandberg
Talking Rosetta Stone at Oglethorpe crypt
An Atlanta report describes T K Peters’s language integrator a talking Rosetta Stone built from a mutoscope and phonograph to teach 8113 A D explorers English via synchronized visual and spoken symbols. The device will open in Oglethorpe University crypt of civilization likely in 1940 with a vow to avoid mismatches between image and name.
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Atlanta
T. K. Peters
Oglethorpe University
Peters
Oglethorpe
Thornwell Jacobs
University
Rosetta
Egypt
Petera
Ogtethorpe Crypt
Stone
Crypt
Oglethorpe Crypt
Tilghmanton Church Prayers and Local Notes
June 20 report from Tilghmanton details prayer services at Fairplay church on June 24 with evening preaching. Sunday Bible study and services listed, holy communion observed, and various Sunday schools noted across Manor Hall Bakersville Mt Moriah and surrounding areas. Local social updates include visitors, family gatherings, hospital news, and knitting mill history in China with wartime context.
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Tilghmanton
Fairplay
the Manor
Hall On Hill
Bakersville
St A. m
C. E
Mt. Moriah
Downaville
A. H. Groff
Groffs
Theo, F. Herman
Lancaster
James Davis
Iowara Hebb
Funkstown
Ortho Lowery
Beulah
Hagerstown Hospital
Jack Speaker
Bakersyville
Fred Ernst
Clearspring
Margaret
Chapel Woots
Television Test Reveals Death by Own Action
A New York broadcast shows Marian Perloff plunge to her death from the 11th floor of the Time and Life building during NBC studio tests at Rockefeller Plaza. The 24 year old Girl Scouts clerk had just returned to work after a nervous breakdown and an unhappy love affair. The incident was captured on a mobile camera fed by cable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rockefeller Center
National Broadcasting Company
Rockefeller Plaza
Time and Life
Camdenn
N. J
Miss Perloff
Girl Scouts, Inc
Low Standards Of Admission Scored
Atlantic City June 24 Judge Robert F. Stenton of Baltimore City condemned Maryland Bar admission standards in a Maryland State Bar Association address. He urged adoption of American Bar Association college training prerequisites for entry to law school, noting no requirement currently in place as the forty-third annual meeting opens.
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Atlantic City
Maryland Bar
Robert F. Stenton
Supreme Head of
Baltimore City
Maryland State Bar Association
Maryland
American Bar Association
Stanton
The
Bar Association
Early Missionary Arrival in China Recounted
The piece notes Chinese missionary history with Johnna Montecorvino as the first. An Italian Franciscan, he arrived in Peiping in 1984 during Timur Khan’s reign, grandson of Kublai Khan, with the event linked to a lengthy timeline that continues through Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Johnna Montecorvino
Peiping
Timur Khan
Kublai Khan
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Shockey Furniture Co
Bummilt Avenue
College
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APPLE
Reas WL
Schenley
Schentey
Sehentey
Wilkens
Harry E. Wilken
Schesley Distribgtons, Inc
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Earl Shaw
Mapleville
Margaret Lowery
Frances Metz
Hood College
Frederick
Thelma Churchey
Mary Thuttomas
Nsiat
Triangle Food Stores
Kay
W. Washington
Tabe
Ata
Ochan Gully
Maryland Federation of Women’s Clubs
Harry “L. Harcum
Saliabury
Federation
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Hamillton Corner
Your Gas CO
John D. Myers & Co
North Potomac St
Pngies
Montgomery
Washington ST
Hagerstown
Fostoria
Harry S. Myers
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