Red Grange Makes $422000 in Twelve Days
Red Grange forsook football chalk lines for dotted lines in a $422,000 twelve day haul. A $300,000 motion picture flat, plus ads and endorsements, boosted his income as he toured Florida and Washington with the Bears awaiting a clash with a pro Washington club. Grange and manager GS Pyle control earnings while Grange downplays need for more money, noting pocketed funds and trainer debts.
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Grange
Florida
Ilinois
Red
Motion Picture Corpo
GS. ¢. Pyle
Washington, D. C
Chicago Bears
Washington
Pyle
Mrs Burkett Granted Divorce in Eastland Court
Eastland Texas judge George L Davenport of the Ninety First District Court granted a divorce to Mrs Fannye N Burkett from Joe Burkett on cruelty grounds. An answer was filed but no further contest. Property and custody of five children were settled with boys to the defendant and girls to the plaintiff per a prior contract.
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Eastland
Texas
George L. Davenport
Ninety-First District Court
Eastland County
Fannye N. Burkett
Joe Burkett
Civil War veterans dwindling as pension rolls persist
The Ohio State Journal notes near disappearance of Civil War age veterans and shrinking Grand Army of the Republic posts. As camps merge or fold, dwindling memberships foreshadow a final reunion. widows drawing pensions from veterans outlive the soldiers, with War of 1812 widows still on rolls.
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United States
Ohio State Journal
Ohio Grand Army of the Republic
United Confederate Veterans
No Pedlers Wanted in Lampasas Movement Formalized
Dec 9 report notes Lampasas residents urged to ban peddlers with signs reading We Trade at Home. Federated Club and Lampasas Chamber of Commerce sponsor door to door canvass. Mr and Mrs KE Morehead toured Dallas Terrell and Greenville. Mrs S H Montgomery visited Dallas relatives.
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Lampasas
Federated Club
KE &. Morehead
Dallas
Terrell
Greenville
S. H. Montgomery
Ohioan breaks world record for corn yield
Ira Marshall of Dola Hardin County set a new world record by producing 1,600.1 bushels of corn on 10 acres, averaging 160.01 bushels per acre, surpassing the 1922 mark by W. H. Gilmore. The record uses air dried shell corn and Ohio State University confirms the figures.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ira Marshall
Dola
Hardin County
Agricultural Extension Department
Ohio State University
W. H. Gilmore
Licking County
Marshall
Card of Thanks to Friends and Family
Family expresses gratitude for kindness and sympathy shown during mother’s illness and after her death. Rosa Norwood and family, Lama Stateville and family, L Myrick and family, O W Myrick and family, M H Myrick, FE T Myrick extend blessings and appreciation to all who offered comfort.
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Rosa Norwood
Lama
Exhilarating Hlerbine Promise at Local Drug Co
A bottle of Hlerbine on the home shelf is described as a constant doctor in the house providing instant relief for digestion and sluggish bowels. One or two doses are said to start movement and restore buoyancy, with a price of 60 cents sold by Bow-Wright Drug Co.
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Bow-Wright Drug CO
Liberty Bell to be Heard by Radio in Historic Ceremony
The Liberty Bell will be broadcast by radio for the first time in a ceremony at Independence Hall Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve. A global radio hookup will carry the tones to listeners in the United States and abroad as actors reenact the Declaration tableau. Freeland Kendrick will strike the bell with a rubber mallet at midnight after safety tests to avoid cracking the bell.
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Independence Hall
Philadelphia
United States
South America
Sesqui Centennial Association
Major Kendrick
New York
Freeland Kendrick
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Verity
Manning & Clark
City Meat Market
Bowling Battery & Electric
S. H. Montgomery the
Mangrum Bros
Whitewright
J. L. Kirkpatrick
South Side
Main St
First National Bank
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