Word: stockport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
Mouse Queen Blowers would like to make the U. S. mouse-conscious. Already the U. S. has its mouse organization: the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, about 35 members led by Rev. R. Willoughby Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y. In November the U. S. will be introduced to Mouse Queen Blowers and several hundred of her choicest mice at a Manhattan cat show...
...first person whom Ezekiel Cobb (Lloyd) meets in Stockport is the town's political boss (George Barbier), searching for a dummy candidate to run for mayor on a reform ticket. It seems to Boss Mayo and his cronies that Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...
...employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need...
...Stockport, England, Walter Kynaston, a retired detective, showed friends a picture made of 8,000 canceled tramway tickets which had taken nine months to piece together. "That's how I amuse myself," said...