Women Embrace Gambling Amid Big Bookies And Lotteries
A Western Newspaper Union feature argues gambling is not just a male pastime. It notes women wager heavily on horses, Bingo, policy, and bridge, with New York leading in numbers and revenue, while other cities license or resist bookies and lotteries.
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Chicago
Illinois
Ohio
Maryland
California
Michigan
New Orleans
Louisville
Miami
Fla
Junior
Suffolk Down
New York
Mary
Egies
Imed Idowa Ik
Harlem
Queens
Portland
Ore
Maine
Wall Street
Western Newspaper Union
Farm Champions on the Air Feature Series Profiles Leaders
Among the Champion Farmers of America highlighted on Firestone’s Voice of the Farm series are top crop growers and stock raisers. Everett Mitchell hosts the program sharing the champions’ climb to championship ratings in their farm operations. Notable winners include Albert Schroeder, Sarah Ann and John Tolan, Darwin Neal, Paul Fisher, L. E. Mathers, Harry L. Chadwick, Adolph Pirani, Ralph L. Heilman, and Paul Stiefboldt with various breeding, growing, and plowing crowns.
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Champion Farmers of America
Firestone
Voice
Everett Mitchell
National
Farm and Home Hour
Albert Schroe
Der
Sarah-Ann
John Tolan
Darwin Neal
Paul Fisher
L. E. Mathers
Harry L. Chadwick
Adolph Pirani
Ralph L. Heilman
Paul Stiefboldt
Firestone Voice OF
Distinguish by Purity Not by Descent or Rank
Quote from Horace on judging merit by purity of life and heart rather than lineage or descent. The line urges moral standards as the true measure of worth. It emphasizes character over social status or birth.
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Horace
Wise Sayings and Social Snippets From Daily Life
A collection of pithy lines on trust, sleep, parenting, and manners. Witty observations touch on cash in advance, a doctor’s warning, growing up, curious youths, girls and fire, wolves at the door, jam crises, and paradoxes about truth and dirt.
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Buddy
Buckingham Fountain Gift Honors Clarence Buckingham
The Buckingham Memorial fountain in Chicago is a gift from the late Miss Kate Buckingham in memory of her brother Clarence, former Art Institute trustee. The fountain cost 1,000,000 dollars, sits in a 600 by 600 foot garden with three basins and a central pool, features four minor pools, and can discharge 5,500 gallons per minute with a column reaching 75 feet, illuminated in five colors at night.
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Buckingham
Kate Buckingham
Chicago
Clarence
Art Institute of Chicago
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Joseph W. Labine
Ethel Jupp
Buckingham Fountain
Firestone Tire
Firestone Auto Supply & Service
Firestone Convoy
Miles
Voice OF Firestone
Richard Crooks
Margaret Speaks
Firestone Symphony Orchestra
Alfred Wallenstein
N. B.C. Red
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