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...exciting barrel race. On the "Sleepy Hollow Stock Exchange" trading in lottery tickets for automobiles and cases of whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling or sharp practice. A winner of a case of bourbon was Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank. In the golf tournament Jess Sweetser, onetime British amateur champion and now of Shields & Co., won low gross with a 73. Only tip-top Manhattan bondmen enjoy the Sleepy Hollow jamboree but the. Bond Club's annual publication - the " Bawl Street Journal-is sold in every important financial city in the land...
...Indiana, Dillinger faced a mandatory death penalty for the murder of Policeman O'Malley. In Ohio, Clark, Makley and Pierpont were wanted for killing Sheriff Jess L. Sarber when they delivered Dillinger from jail. Illinois had a variety of unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...
...from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before the War. He also sold wrinkle eradicators. weight reducers, bust developers, hair restorers, Nuxated Iron* which made Ty Cobb "greatest baseball batter of all time." which enabled Prizefighter Jess Willard to "triumph over" Prizefighter Jack Johnson, and Prizefighter Jack Dempsey "to whip" Prizefighter Jess Willard. Currently E. Virgil Neal has a cosmetic factory in Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest product...
...those of famous name, regardless of their acting ability; this genus of fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked eye; nevertheless, they are in the picture. Strangely enough, Max Baer as Stove...
...title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy brown beard, four inches long. He practices against his wife, whom experts consider a more accomplished wrestler than her husband...