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Albert M. ("Lucky") Snook, Vandyke-bearded publisher of the Aurora, Ill., Beacon-Journal, smiled when stupid photographers asked him to spell his name over again. He had distinguished himself at the Associated Press convention in 1924 by emitting a strange & enthusiastic cry on the appearance of President Calvin Coolidge. His wife, at home in Aurora, heard the cry over the radio, said: "When I recognized Mr. Snook's holler, I knew he was all right." Mr. Snook achieved the epithet of "Lucky" when he won The Chess Game, a painting by John Singer...
...priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange, and a combination of all five, for when Buddha discovered knowledge, under a Bo tree, he found himself surrounded by an aurora containing these bright and wonderful colors...
...Clifton Copley, Representative from Illinois (1911-23), bestrides the country editorially with one foot planted firmly on newspapers of Joliet, Aurora, Elgin and Springfield, Ill., and the toe of the other on three papers in San Diego, Calif, (see p. 34). Last week he set his California heel down on 16 more papers of communities around Los Angeles, where his wife was born. The seller of the 16 papers was Frederick William Kellogg...
Colonel Ira Clifton Copley of Aurora, Ill. (papers in Illinois and California...
...Includes Aurora Beacon-News, Joliet Herald-Ncws, Elgin Courier, all Illinois...