Word: conklins
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...motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
Electrocuted or burned to death: Pilot Salway; Count Henri de la Vaulx, pioneer airman, President of Federation Aeronautique Internationale; Mrs. Mary E. Gallagher Williams of Providence, R. I.: Arthur V. Conklin of Huntington...
...Folklore. In Washington, three weeks ago, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri presented Speaker Nicholas Longworth with a revolver. It had once belonged to Bandit Jesse James and Speaker Longworth amused himself by pointing it at a newspaper photographer who took his picture. In Bay City, Mich., small Nathaniel Conklin saw the picture, showed it to his sister Dorothy, said. "I can do that too. Wait, I'll show you." Nathaniel Conklin then ran upstairs, got his father's rifle, pointed it at his sister, shot her dead...
...Hill Bachman, W. B. '32 Back 20 180 5.10 Choate Barres, H. '32 End 20 162 5.11 Andover Beane, A. C. '31 Back 19 160 5.11 New Orleans Academy Betner, B. C., Jr. '32 Line 21 176 5.10 Hill Booth, A. J., Jr. '32 Back 21 155 5.6 Milford Conklin, J. H. W. '31 Back 20 165 5.8 Exeter Cruikshank, H. L. '31 Back 22 168 6. Taft Dunn, K. '31 Back 20 188 6.2 Kent Ellis, H. M. '30 Back 24 165 5.10 Exeter Ferris, D. L. '30 Line 21 185 6.2 Hotchkiss Godman...
...issue cropped up hotly before the Senate Committee last week in connection with the carillon purchased in England by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Park Avenue Baptist Church. The present duty on carillons is 40%. The House bill cut this duty to 20%. William R. Conklin, Rockefeller counsel, urged the elimination of all duty, asserted that the U. S. has no good carillon makers. William R. Meneely of Troy, N. Y., whose ancestors made bells in Revolutionary times, retorted that his firm casts first-rate bells, that Mr. Rockefeller alone was agitating for a reduced tariff...