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...newspapers of round, beaming Frank Ernest Gannett rarely make exciting news. Now & then the public hears that Publisher Gannett has bought another small daily like the Saratoga Springs (N. Y.) Saratogian or the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News, as he did last year; or the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, as he did last week. But the sum of Frank Gannett's unspectacular doings makes a story that many a publisher would like to be able to tell about himself...
Near the northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...
...noon last March 500 civic-minded Utica matrons crowded into the dining room of the Utica Hotel abuzz with talk over Utica's latest, hottest club idea. No men were to be invited, but husbands clamored so loudly they were finally permitted to fill up a few tables. Boys from nearby Hamilton College came to town begging for reservations. The guest of honor, Miss Cathrine Curtis, whose radio talks on Women & Money had inspired the luncheon, was so excited she could not eat. Over plates of steaming chicken the ladies listened to speeches, applauded, voted. Result: Women Investors...
Meanwhile at Gloversville, at Utica and at other communities of New York's Mohawk Valley, topers swigged the best liquor they could afford. Louis Bondsman & wife eventually went to their Gloversville bed. Cramps woke Bondsman up. He could not rouse his wife to help him for she was dead. He got out of bed and into the cold street where a policeman found him shuffling along, weeping: ""I'll be dead. I'll be dead'. I'll be dead. . . ." He died in an ambulance...
...Utica, Mabel Rose, 42, while walking along the street in the early morning, after drinking cheap liquor, suddenly became dizzy and partially blind. In a hospital she died in agony. Victor Peterson, 43, liquor seller, interrupted police questioning to scream, "I have pains in my back." and to die forthwith...