Word: ashlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week John B. Chappie, 32-year-old editor of the Ashland (Wis.) Press, vociferous foe of La Follettism, announced his candidacy for the Senate from Wisconsin. As a "stalwart" he will try to take the Republican nomination away from Senator John J. Elaine, La Follette "Progressive," in the September primary. Candidate Chappie got the front steps of the White House for a rostrum. "I make this announcement," he said, "after discussing with President Hoover at luncheon the campaign leading up to victory of real Republicans in Wisconsin. ... I take my stand with President Hoover. . . . It's time...
...Pasha (presenting letters of credence). President Walter F. Dexter of Whittier College, Calif, (to discuss his book President Hoover and American Individualism), President Richard Waldo of Mc-Clure Newspaper Syndicate (to report on business conditions after a 10,000-mi. U. S. trip), Editor John B. Chappie of the Ashland, Wis. Daily Press (to denounce the Brothers La Follette as Communists), General Superintendent Ernst Stoltenhoff of Coblenz, Germany (to say "How do you do, Mr. President...
...Marengo Valley near Ashland, Wis., one Arvo Juoni, Finnish farmer, took a bride, remained with her at the farmhouse of her father, John Peterson, for a quiet, peaceful honeymoon. As Juoni & bride were about to retire there appeared outside the house a band of Finnish youths and maidens, beating tin pans, blowing horns, and demanding $15 tribute to stop. Father Peterson indignantly refused, so the charivari continued all night while father, bride & groom vainly tried to sleep...
...bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson appealed to Sheriff Elmer Saunders, had four leaders arrested, held in $50 bond by Ashland's Municipal Judge Thomas A. Humphrey. The next night the din was louder, included the popping of pistols. Father Peterson appeared at his door with a shotgun, was forced to retire...
...perjured testimony of Dorothy Louise, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Last November, Mrs. Drew's conscience stung her into confessing the murder to Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo who promptly released her father from prison. Last week Mrs. Drew pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Ashland, awaited sentence...