Peggy Hopkins Joyce buys $300,000 diamond for immortality
The Photoplay interview reveals Peggy Hopkins Joyce bought a 2 carat South African diamond without a history, paying for it herself despite saying she could not afford it. She explains it represented a chance at immortal fame beyond headlines while detailing views on why women wear jewels and how men purchase them for status. The article also notes film features and cast updates at Library Theatre and notes Marion Davies in The Cardboard Lover with Nils Asther in the lead.
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Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Photoplay
Peggy
South Africa
New York
Marion Davies
Library Thursday
Library Theatre
Europe
the Fair
Miss Davies
Nils Asther
Robert Z. Leonard
Jetta Gondal
Tenen Holtz
Pepi Lederer
Former Major League Pitcher Hod Eller Injured in Auto Accident
Hod Eller, former major league pitcher, is reported to have slight improvement after an automobile crash in Indianapolis on Monday. He was ejected when his car struck another vehicle and suffered a skull fracture, hospital attendants said.
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Indianapolis
Hod Eller
Eller
Prominent Editor Barron Dies at Sanatorium
Clarence W. Barron editor of the Wall Street Journal died at a sanatorium in Battle Creek Ind after a three week illness. He had been unconscious for two weeks. A separate notice promotes a furniture factory closing sale offering 24 chairs at 4.98 each from Bayer Furniture Store.
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Battle Creek
Ind
U. P
Clarence W. Barron
The
Wall Street Journal
Bayer Furniture Store
Dora Olson
Anderson
George Olson
Denver
Colorado
News Parade at Columbia Today
The Fox picture The News Parade starring Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps plays at the Columbia Theatre today only. Nick Stuart as Newsreel Nick photographs Brandon Hurst as a crusty millionaire and falls for the daughter amid action, thrills, and romance. David Butler directed from an original story with William Counselman.
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Fox
Nick Stuart
Sally Phipps
Columbia Theatre
Nick
Brandon Hurst
Earle Foxe
David Butler
William Counselman
American-Russian commerce and a wary warning on communism
Protests by ex service groups against commercial ties with Russia. The piece argues Americans should avoid marketing Russia and notes the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce reports 146 percent return on capital in Russia and 85.5 percent on total invested. It warns big business funds communism and references Trotzky on historical outcomes.
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Tsing
Russia
Ground floor revolutions and wealth in the era
A collage of mid 1928 global remarks notes Trotsky’s wealth and Soviet sequestering of funds, contrasts Robespierre’s poverty, challenges Democrats’ prosperity claim, and cites September stock records and rising dividends. It mentions bankers in Philadelphia debating usury, Mussolini’s enduring rule, birth rate issues, African land grabs, and road construction. Also notes Observatore Romano defending American Catholics from politicization and a Belgian cyclist's hour record pace.
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Wall Street
Pickett Club Meeting Notes On Kelly Improvement
Tuesday night meeting chaired by Rhodaberger due to Kelly's absence notes rapid improvement and expected return in weeks. Sales led by Art Munson with Doc Arird second and Fred Walter third. Arird led in customers with Loding second and Chestnutt third. Past month business showed remarkable increase. Worley presented a selling article. general store problems discussed.
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Pickett Club
Rhodaberger
Kelly
Art Munson
Doc Arird
Fred Walter
Stewart Loding
Don Chestnutt
Elmer Worley
Woman's Club Rummage Sale at 104 Penn Ave East
Open daily from 10 to 3 at 104 Penn Avenue East the Woman's Club holds a rummage sale with a large stock of clothing and other desirable articles. All welcome.
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Woman's Club
Penn’a. Avenue E
Two Men Injured In Youngsville Auto Crash
Two prominent Youngsville citizens were slightly injured when their cars collided at West Main Street and Pittsfield. Selander was thrown through his car roof. Morrison’s Chevrolet ended upright in a ditch. Wreckers removed both vehicles as the scene closed.
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Youngsville
E E. Slander
West Main Street
Pittsfield
Frank Morrison
Selander
Morrison
Believe taxi war linked to Hertz stables fire in Illinois
Chicago officials guarded taxi stations as three agencies probed the Sunday night bombings of two cab garages and the early Monday fire at John D. Hertz racing stables in Cary, Illinois. Police tied the blaze to a taxi-company rivalry, with arrests and a manhunt underway.
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Chicago
U.P
John D. Hertz
Cary
John Stege
State's Attorney’s Office
McHenry County
Hertz
Harry Brown
Frisco Dutch
Joseph Wokral
Checker Cab Company
Brown
Yellow Cab Company
Cyrus Sanford
Nine Dead in Clash on Albanian Border
Athens Oct 3 Nine persons were killed in a frontier clash near Scutari between Yugo Slavians and Albanians. Among the dead were the Fuso c Slaviet vice governor and eight Yugoslavs plus one Albanian. The fight followed the murder of the Albanian clan chief whose relatives crossed into Albania seeking justice.
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Athens
U.P
Fuso c Slaviet
Scutari
Swedish employment up stockholm decline in July
Swedish unemployment figures show 9,500 people applied for aid in July, down from 11,169 in June, a decrease of about 14.9 percent. Government data indicate a steady improvement in Sweden’s job market, while cautious buyers read the market signals in the background.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Picking Presidents by Charles L. Mulligar
The essay recalls Washington resisting a third term and notes that later leaders like Grant and Roosevelt sought to challenge that precedent. It describes nine nominations with Federalists backing Adams and Clinton, anti-Federalists backing Jefferson and Burr, and ponders whether Washington’s role could be filled without fracturing the nation.
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Washington
Grant
Roosevelt
Adams
Clinton
New York
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Adams and Jefferson Tie Vote in Early Elector System
The article notes the 1796 electors and the split tickets with John Adams carrying Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson winning Virginia. It explains the two-name slate system, the 133 electors, and how the president and vice president were chosen separately, foreshadowing the eventual tie issues and the later shift to broader reforms.
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John Adams
Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia
Thomas Pinckney
S. Carolina
Aaron Burr
New York
Samuel Adams
Oliver Ellsworth
Connecticut
Adams
Washington
Area
John Jay
James Iredell
North Carolina
George Washington
John Henry
Maryland
Samuel Johnson
Charles C. Pinckney
Carolina
Man acquitted after prior robbery conviction overturned
Frederick West 20 of Fairmont West Virginia was acquitted in Allegheny criminal court after a prior rob bing conviction was overturned on judge Elder W Marshall order West denied involvement in the December 14 Aldine theatre hold up in which $2400 was taken and testified he was in Fairmont Marie Bowers corroborated his alibi West had been granted a new trial and freed following the direction of the judge
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Pittsburgh
U. P
Frederick West
Fairmont
W. Va
Elder W. Marshall
Allegheny Criminal Court
Aldine
West
New Albany
Ind
Thomas J. Forg
Gerald Murphy
Marie Bowers
Pittsburg Man Hangs Self in Dixmont Hospital
Michael Murdock aged 38 from Argentine Butler county died by his own action today, hanged himself in Dixmont hospital.
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Pittsburgh
U. P
Michael Murdock
Argentine
Butler County
Dixmont Hospital
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