Word: alton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Los Angeles Rev. A. (for Alton) Earl Lee, 39, onetime disciple of Aimee Semple McPherson, set out in his small Immanuel Temple to better the marathoning records of Preacher Brown and Dr. Mdodana. Preacher Lee, a curly-haired, wisp-mustached University of California graduate, declared he would preach continuously for 60 hours. He hired a nurse and dietitian, a portable microphone, had food, wearing apparel and a rubdown table placed in his vestry. Subject of his sermon: "The Deity of God in Jesus Christ...
...pond, the pond on the Mount Hermon grounds was drained, in vain. After ten days the inquest adjourned leaving Dr. Speer's death the greatest school murder mystery of the generation. Five months later Dean Elder resigned from Mount Hermon, went to raise poultry on his farm at Alton...
Through the Berkshires again went the shudder of the Speer murder mystery. Out went a police alarm for Thomas Edwin Elder, who was arrested next day at his Alton farm. He waived extradition, was taken to Greenfield. His alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story...
Robert Wadlow, 19, of Alton, Ill. agreed to promote Valspar varnish, by pouring, in advertisements, a teakettle of boiling water from his height of 8 ft. 7 in. upon a shining Valsparred table...
...that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans...