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Chicago, candidate for the Republican nomination for Mayor last winter, engaged in a street fight with one Emil Domres, contractor, when the latter bumped his automobile into the judge...
...Frankfurt, Emil Weiller, senior partner of the 136-year-old J. I. Weiller Sons, famed private bankers, took poison in his office, died...
...home of Emil Szalay, sausage maker of Flint, Mich., hangs a framed certificate testifying that Emil Szalay's father served two years in the Hungarian army after rebellious Hungary had been subdued by Austria with the help of Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...year ago Emil Szalay, middleaged, plump, walrus-moustached, met George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar...
...Manchester, Iowa a white leghorn hen owned by Emil Wendling Jr. knocks on the kitchen door by flapping her wings against it. walks to an old coat in the corner of the room, lays an egg in it and "knocks" to be let outdoors again. In two months the hen laid 50 eggs by that procedure...