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Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...
...Olympia and Uptown "The Public Enemy." One of the better gangland pictures with that lurid Harlow person...
...occurred to him that he might set down for his host of followers some of the more attractive taverns that they too might experience the joys of the epicure before the Pops or a movie. The Vagabond has ever cared deeply for the Olympia. Every now and again American food becomes too prosaic, too jading for the appetite. Then a baked chop, rice cooked with the aid of some occult Greek necromancy, and Baclava make a meal worth the cating. Down near the market there is the restaurant which was an institutions of our fathers', Durgin's. A good trustworthy...
...back I will ask him to take the statue of my father and put it in some public place-possibly around Times Square. It is a curious thing that when he was exactly my age my father went through the same thing. In 1897 he lost under foreclosure the Olympia Theatre. ... In a couple of years, when conditions improve, I'll be back again, bigger than ever...
...Olympia, Wash, last week, Governor Roland H. Hartley vetoed the latest bill for a horse-cleaning of his State. Officially he wrote: "This bill says a mule is a horse. ... A horse might make a jackass out of itself, as did certain members of the present State Senate, but I would still be unwilling to convert a State Senator into a jackass by legislative enactment. This would be unfair to the jackass...