Word: streator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alice Joy's start and "discovery" by radio are archetypal. Her start was sufficiently obscure. She used to be Frances Holcombe, daughter of a rural mail-carrier in Streator, Ill. At 9 she sang hymns for Chautauqua audiences, standing on a chair between two older sisters. At 18 she went into vaudeville, played every State but Texas as one of Will J. Ward's Five Piano Girls. Then she married a Captain E. Robert Burns, Wartime aviator turned vaudeville pressagent. She settled down on Staten Island, had two children, went in for gardening...
...Streator Grandaddy...
...world's word record is Erasto Garcia's; see TIME'S Miscellany, Nov. 3 wherein is stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with...