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...Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...
Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...
...Said Representative Fred Al bert Britten of Illinois, ranking member of the House Naval Affairs Committee: "I think that officers of the Navy generally feel that Rear Admiral Magruder went off half-cocked and that instead of doing the Navy a service he probably has hurt us in the eyes of the public. ... I do not believe that Admiral Magruder should or will be disciplined. . . . Congress will never tolerate the gagging of Admiral Magruder...
Music at the Copley-Plaza will be furnished by the Meyer Davis Society Orchestra of Washington, D. C., and by the Barybary Coast jazz band of Dartmouth. Bert Lowe, in person, and his 20 piece Hotel Statler Orchestra will play for the Statles...
...pretty good horse and had a "kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...