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Born 52 years ago in Winnipeg, Broker Housser made a Dominion name as a hockey star, first at Toronto's swank St. Andrew's College, later at the University of Toronto and then on Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played...
Died. Patrick Burns, 81, millionaire Alberta rancher, board chairman of P. Burns & Co., Ltd. (meatpackers) which he sold in 1928 for $15,000,000; in Calgary. In 1878 he tramped 160 miles from Winnipeg to Tanner's Crossing where he staked out a homestead, sold his first two cows to the late railroad-builder Sir William Mackenzie...
...attempting to blackmail Cinemactor Clark Gable, the Los Angeles Federal grand jury indicted dumpy Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, of Winnipeg, who claimed that he is the father of 13-year-old Gwendolyn, one of her four illegitimate children...
...system is called the Duke-Fingard Treatment. "Duke" stands for a Fingard "uncle from Germany" whom David Fingrard calls Rudolph Duke, whom high-placed English backers of the treatment call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during...
Pianist Serkin scored his second Manhattan triumph three days after his second Chicago one. Later this season he will play twice more in New York. Other engagements will take him to Winnipeg, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Dallas. Next March he sails again for Europe...