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...beer bill quirk: Home brewers without a $1,000 brewer's license will be liable to a $1,000 fine...
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Seventeen years ago in Chicago an attractive, blue-eyed miss named Katherine Dougherty got a $15-a-week job as assistant bookkeeper for a skimpy little pamphlet called Photoplay. Last week Miss Dougherty went from the Chicago to the Manhattan office of Photoplay to succeed the late James R. Quirk as president & publisher. In the interim she had folded circulars, addressed envelopes, read manuscripts, worked 40 Sundays a year for the first five years. She is still attractive and young looking. Photoplay is no longer a pamphlet but the most dignified, most richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation...
Died. James R. Quirk, 48, editor & publisher of Photoplay, onetime (1928-30) publisher of Smart Set; of bronchial pneumonia and heart disease; in Hollywood...
Samuel Insull still recalls with pride that he was born, 72 years ago, in England. From boyhood he had great admiration for Thomas Alva Edison. By a quirk of fate he answered an advertisement for a secretary, found out that the man who had inserted the advertisement was Edison's London representative. Edison was struck with Mr. Insull's weekly reports, sent for him in 1881. For eleven years they worked together, Mr. Insull learning much about the technical side of the young light & power business. In 1892 Mr. Insull wrote to the capitalists controlling four-year-old Chicago Edison...