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Cheek-Neal Co. of Nashville makes Maxwell coffee. Fifty-five years ago Joel O. Cheek and J. Will Neal worked for a wholesale grocer at Nashville. Mr. Cheek's job was to sell coffee to the general stores of Tennessee hill villages. He rode a saddle horse and carried coffee samples in his saddle bags. At that time he affected a pointed beard. When he came home from a trip he would potter around his kitchen oven roasting experimental blends of coffee. He used twelve-pint coffee pots for brewing his blends. His eight sons and one daughter guard...
...Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant...
Across to Singapore. Two seagoing sons of Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land...
...Coolidge continued well last week and accompanied the President to a dinner given by the Hoovers. But the condition of her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who had been lying ill in Northampton, Mass., for three months, became more serious. Accompanied by White House Physician Joel T. Boone and by Mrs. Reuben B. Hills of Northampton, her friend since girlhood, Mrs. Coolidge went home. Mrs. Goodhue rallied, then sank again. John Coolidge went down from Amherst to join his mother, accompanied by Miss Florence Trumbull. They waited...
...Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked...