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...goodbye as they shouted "Come back again!" Next day British headlines and dispatches gave the impression that Patrick had "mingled with crowds" in Belfast (not in a hand-picked village), talked of the "momentous consequences," made much of a surprise visit by H. R. H. next day to a linen thread works at Lisburn where he was "mobbed by laughing colleens...
Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly...
...praise the aspirant's piety and generosity. Then other independent office-seekers spoke. Then John Brinkley, preceded by his wife and accompanied by his son "Johnny Boy," made his way to the rostrum. Lights were lowered. Only one bright glow overhead illuminated the soft straw hat, the linen suit, the medical goatee of Candidate Brinkley as he took a seat before his loudspeaker and, widely gesturing, began his speech. The Brinkley platform: free school books, cheaper automobile licenses. The Brinkley pledge: that if he gets in office the State is bound to save money because he belongs...
...Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years had Chicago seen such a turnout, even under Big Bill...
Married. K. Ernest ("Kaye") Don, 40, racing driver; and Eileen Martin, 21, Greenwich, Conn. socialite, daughter of Businessman Leonard J. Martin who bought 40 million yards of surplus airplane linen from the British Government in 1919 for $20,000,000 and made a fortune reselling it; in Greenwich, Conn...