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...impeachment charges. He was State Treasurer Larry Brunk. The Missouri House had impeached him after the State Supreme Court had denied Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield the power to remove him from office. Larry Brunk was accused of collecting interest on State funds deposited in the now defunct Bank of Aurora in his home town. These collections, according to the charge, went into a "Brunk Rent Account" from which the State Treasurer's private indebtedness to the bank was gradually liquidated. Another charge was that Brunk got a $10,000 gift from a Chicago bond house for authorizing...
Last week Mr. Tarn entered Blixtra in a six-furlong race at Aurora, Ill. with new hope. He had remembered that the Cubans told him to feed the horse pineapples. Pineapple-fed Blixtra dashed from the post at Aurora, came in four lengths ahead...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...
Died. Dr. George Morgan Ward, 71, president emeritus of Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (president 1895-1903, 1916-20), onetime (1903-12) president of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., winter pastor at the Royal Poinciana Chapel of Palm Beach; of heart disease; in Palm Beach...
...Aurora, Ill., Justice Galvin married David Livsey and Fay Sutcliffe. The wedding service: "Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...