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...Norristown, Pa., Mrs. Edward H. Le Boutillier told a court that her husband pursued a daily schedule of drinking. Starting at 6 a. m., he was drunk by midmorning, sober by lunch. The afternoon found him in his cups but by 6 p. m. he was back where he started. After dinner he began again, reaching a peak around bedtime. To a hospital for a year the judge sent Edward H. Le Boutillier...
...subhead "Green Ball," you state that Philadelphia & Western's streamlined railway equipment operates at 50 m.p.h. These cars were designed for speeds of 80 m.p.h. on level tangent track and have actually been clocked at 88 m.p.h. They make the 14-mi. journey between terminals at Philadelphia and Norristown in 16 minutes including one stop and two slowdowns en route...
...Norristown, Pa., "Big Jake" Lehman was told that his sentence for first degree murder had been commuted from electrocution to life imprisonment. Said he: "Now I can finish my jigsaw puzzle...
With his back in a cast because of injuries received from falling off a ladder in a well. Major General Smedley Darling" ton Butler left his bed to address a veterans' rally at Norristown, Pa. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, who said he had not milked a cow for 20 years, lost a milking contest in Shenandoah, Iowa to Earl May, operator of radio station KFNF, owned by Henry ("Himself") Field, Republican nominee for Senator. The loser's plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill...
...deed Dr. Norris, 64, would have lost a $3,300 yearly pension. But the money has no great meaning to him. He is one of the Pennsylvania Norrises whose American ancestor, Isaac, was a friend of William Penn. Isaac Norris' descendants founded Norristown, Pa., became wealthy bankers, merchants, and landowners in & around Philadelphia...