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...plumpest diplomatic plum, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed last week about to drop into the dapper lap of Robert Worth Bingham, 61, wealthy Louisville, Ky. publisher. Born and educated in North Carolina, Mr. Bingham crossed the mountains to Kentucky to seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died...
...Kentucky plumber's wife last week displaced a Wisconsin foster child as heroine of the nation's sneezing news. Daisy Jost, 15, of Chippewa Falls, Wis. had ceased sneezing when Mrs. Lonnie Dickson, 48, of Princeton, Ky., commenced to sneeze. Daisy held the time record (nine days); Mrs. Dickson set the frequency record (25 times a minute). While the excitement lasted friends advised all sorts of remedies-pressing the upper lip, cold baths, blowing cigaret smoke through the nose. Doctors cured both sneezers by giving them sedatives (which allowed them to sleep and gain strength) and letting...
...Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. of Louisville, Ky., maker of one of the four best-selling 20-for-10? brands (Twenty Grand), announced a net profit for 1932 of $1,416,952, more than double its 1931 profit...
...hand a story of the decade or no story at all. What it seemed to think it had was the discovery of a 3,000-year-old civilization in Kentucky. The Chicago Daily News had sent Reporter Robert J. Casey to view some diggings at Wickliffe, Ky. Thence he wired excited reports of "The American equivalent of Tutankhamen's tomb"; "evidence that a people had mastered the elements of community life and government while Babylon ruled the known world"; ". . . its mystery is one with Angkor and Karkemish. . . ." By every definition of news such a report, if true, should have...
...story told how a Paducah, Ky. lumberman named Fain W. King found the burial mounds such as are common in Kentucky and Ohio. In one of them he discovered "1,000 skeletons," flint arrowheads, bits of metal that may have indicated a traveling and trading people. But the basis for the "3,000-year-old" guess, the delineation of civilization and culture, were obscure. No archaeologist of standing could last week be located to say whether the Wickliffe diggings were a "buried city" or another Indian burial ground...