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Died. Mrs. Mary A. Ladley Wrigley, 91, mother of Gum Tycoon William Wrigley Jr.; at Philadelphia...
Rare example of a depression-proof industry was shown by reports that American Chicle Co., gum-makers, would do as well as last year...
...Wilbur Glenn ("The Earth is Flat") Voliva, overseer of Zion City Ill's famed Christian Church religious Colony, came word that three of his girl employes had been observed chewing gum. The Executive Board assembled, exiled the offenders...
...Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill ("steal," its enemies called it) had become law. Some ships, having lost the race, turned out of U. S. ports, took cargoes elsewhere. Conversely, piles of chicle (for gum-chewers), piles of spice and other things nice on which the new law reduced or revoked duties, after long waiting came officially into the U. S. from customs warehouses...
...steer broke loose and jumped over the rails into the audience. Rogers roped it and was given so much publicity that he was booked in Keith's Union Square Theatre in an act of his own. Sitting on a pony in the middle of the stage he chewed gum, spun a rope, cracked jokes. Later, in the Follies, where he appeared without the pony, he chewed and drawled for 20 minutes his homely, immensely witty comments on current news...