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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eggs & Flowers: A little old lady-fan in White Plains, N. Y. used to send them regularly, followed finally by all her family silver. The eggs were 'always fresh...
...Batavia, N. Y., Elmer Schulz, four, found his father's shotgun in the kitchen, aimed it at his mother, said, "I'm going to shoot you, Mama," pulled the trigger and killed her. Said he later: "I bang Mama...
...Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose...
...Kinston, N. C., hunters told the following stories...
...McNamee is lean, light-haired, with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting...