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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Lawrenceville, N. J. to Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone...
...William ("Billy") Sunday, silent, these many months, screamed at a Pitman, N. J. camp meeting: "The Church has got its back to the wall! They're building nine theatres to one Church. All people think of is entertainment-movies and the like. They offered me $1,000,000 to go into the movies, but I turned it down. I can do more good speaking to the people face to face...
...Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach realtor, the privilege of buying for $150 per foot the land now valued at over $700. To Mrs. Croker the difference will be $5,000,000, besides large attorney fees...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still...
...aboard for Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles!" bawled a sergeant of Marines at Lakehurst, N. J., one midnight last week...