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Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions...
Month ago at Boothbay Harbor, Me., John Anthony McDonough married a school teacher named Mildred Ernestine Reed. The bridegroom was an A. E. F. veteran, an Elk, an Eagle, the president of the Maine Association of Football Officials and, most important of all, the State Relief Administrator. Among the distinguished guests at his wedding was Louis J. Brann, who had just made Democratic history by being re-elected Governor of Maine. Home from their honeymoon last week, Mr. & Mrs. McDonough suddenly discovered that their marriage had also helped to make national history...
...appearance he is tall, tending toward fleshiness in recent years. He has a broad mouth, which smiles easily, the sharp, inquisitive nose of the born prosecutor. A little fuzz is left atop his long head. He dresses neatly, quietly. He is a Methodist, Mason and Elk...
Zita has eight healthy offspring, five of them boys. They range from Otto. 21, down through Adelaide, Robert. Felix, Karl, Rudolf and Charlotte to Elizabeth, 12 (see cut}. Lest the negotiations break down and Otto suffer a rebuff, Zita sent him recently to Scandinavia where he was hunting elk as the guest of Sweden's toothy old King Gustaf...
...Waldo Ruhl of the Mail Tribune rose up in righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn...