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Akron's Spider...
...enclosing two clippings giving correct version of the sensationalized spider story you got out of the daily press. One clipping is 'my letter from the Sunday Times Press (Scripps-Howard newspaper), in which the long drawn out spider story was worked up. It might be said that the spider was observed and publicized in and by the newspaper, certainly we in this department did not do a thing...
...Brooklyn, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Mulholland tuned in their radio on a rescue mission hour. Into the room came the words, "I will now introduce 'Spider' Tillman and he will tell you of his experience in this world of sin." While Frederick ("Spider") Tillman told how Christianity had redeemed him from a life of sin, Mrs. Mulholland went white & whiter, John Mulholland went red & redder. Spider Tillman was the first husband whom Mrs. Mulholland had claimed to be dead. John Mulholland called on him at the rescue mission, then sued for annulment of his own marriage...
...Thompson of Barberton, Ohio owns a blue alarm clock. One day last month his wife noticed that a spider, which she described as a "tiny black dot," had somehow got between the face and the glass. From minute hand to hour hand the insect stretched and tethered its silky strands. The hands moved on, tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound...
...George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically enough must develop at times into a stout hempen rope, that gives excuse for the presence of George M. Cohan. And it does not content itself with a single exhibition of its star but must with unparalleled magnanimity, offer him to the audience twice, once...