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...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...John Kristopek, middleaged, $25-a-week worker in a raybestos factory at Passaic, N. J., who had been buying tickets in lotteries, raffles, baseball pools all his life, and Angelina and Sophie Jobe, waitresses in the Hollywood Coffee Shop on Second Avenue, Manhattan: $23,130 and $12,000 respectively in the Grand National sweepstakes...
Delia J. Akeley is not a member of the American committee, but its executive secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, F. R. G. S., second wife and widow of Carl Akeley, author of Carl Akeley's Africa, a fascinating chronicle. Chapter 19 of this volume contains a full discussion of the origin and location, flora and fauna, of the Pare National Albert...
BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...