Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external injury. Carrying his inquiries further among insurance adjusters, the investigator learned so much about Mr. Womack, a onetime insurance agent, that last week he and an impressive array of his relatives stood trial...
Lexicons and Wellesley girls will take the place of exam thoughts in the minds of Lampoon men. February 17 is the date scheduled for the battle of wits between the local humorists and the funny paper girls...
...church organizations have been asked to support and promote their local President's Birthday Balls this week for the benefit of infantile paralysis victims. Last week the Louisville, Ky. Council of Churches declined. Its reason, odd for a city church federation, was: "We don't approve of dancing...
Immortal No. 14, whose career, like most baseballers', has been a poignant illustration of the old baseball adage-a hero in the third inning may look like a bum in the seventh-was last week swapping tales with local barflies in the Empire Hotel at Springfield, Ill., when he was informed of his fortunate rescue from obscurity. One of the most effective right-handed pitchers of all time, Grover Cleveland ("Old Pete") Alexander, now 50, could review a career that reached its third inning in the 1926 World Series (between the Cardinals and Yankees) when, after a night...
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