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...tutor's letter stated that he did note expect that he would win or that he would collect any money because of the suit. Wolff says that he knows that it is "foolhardy" to sue, but that he accepts the challenge anyhow...
...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
Last month Mrs. Riggert heard the Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Carl Henry Proehl's story. Last week Carl Henry Proehl, alias David Barry, now 40, spare & repentant, was on his way to collect his money, promising to use it to assure college educations for his sons, David, 9, Douglas...
...Crew members of the sunken Norwegian steamer Lappen testified in Marine Court at Bergen last week that no mine or torpedo sent their ship down, but an explosion set by one of her officers to collect insurance for the owners. None of Lappen's crew was hurt...
Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...