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Died. Moe Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario...
...Mills, rich and rotund, continued to be the most leather-lunged stumpster in the Cabinet. Cincinnati last week heard him blame the possibility of Governor Roosevelt's election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...Dean Slinker, director of business education in the high schools, for 275 students of retail selling, business organization, business English, art and journalism. Every high school nominated students for executive positions, at $2 for the day. Winners were drawn by lot. Younkers took 143 students. Sears, Roebuck 25, The Utica (clothing) 23, Montgomery Ward 10, The Globe (department store) 9, Wolf's (ladies') 8, Norman Cassiday (ladies') 6, Kresge's 6, Herman Kucharo (men's) 4, Sprankel's (men's) 4, Carley's (ladies') 4, J. C. Penney (department store...
...succeed Farm Loan Commissioner Paul Bestor who was also dropped from the R. F. C. by the new law, the President named Charles Addison Miller, upState New York Republican. Mr. Miller, also a lawyer, is president of Savings Bank of Utica. He writes detective stories to amuse himself. He took Charles Gates Dawes's place as R. F. C. president...
Wales Scholarship: A. J. Derbyshire, Utica, N. Y.; Jeffries Wyman Scholarships: W. G. Hamilton, Laclede, Mc.; H. M. Kaplan, Revere, Mass.; University Scholarships: Spencer Brown, Hartford, Conn.; N. B. DeNood, Cambridge, Mass,; Hans Fischel, New York City; Harold Gershinowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana...