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...send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
Also occurred last week many a suicide which had no apparent connection with the Great Depression. A Manhattan peanut peddler shot himself because he was ill. Because his daughter eloped, a Maryland farmer did away with himself. Unexplained suicides (in addition to dozens for traditional reasons) included a wealthy paper manufacturer, a retired Marine Corps major, an Army sergeant in the Canal Zone, a dress manufacturer, the social secretary of the wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able sons of the late Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co. (a meat peddler of Barnstable, Mass, who went West to enter Chicago's packing industry), Son Edward Foster grew up in his father's business as a shrewd cattle buyer, headed the worldwide organization after Elder Brother Louis Franklin retired last January. Unlike Armour & Co. (in which there...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...