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Fulton of Oak Falls (adapted by George M. Cohan from a play by Parker Fennelly; Cohan & Harris, producers). The theatre is less convinced than the cinema that there is magic in a formula, and in the theatre sequels are comparatively rare. Fulton of Oak Falls, however, shows every sign of trying to be a sequel to Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness, with a daughter instead of a son as the trouble focus...
...first settlers. How Freeport, Va. was named is unknown. Freeport, Ill. was named after First Settler William ("Tutty") Baker, who was so lavish with food and shelter to wayfarers that his wife complained: "What is this we have made of our home, a free port?" Freeport, Minn., originally called Oak Station, was renamed after Freeport, Ill. as was Freeport, Mich...
...moribund Kansas City real-estate firm called McCoy Land Co. sued as a taxpayer to prevent sale of bonds for a new Jackson County courthouse site on Oak Street. President of McCoy Land Co. was Lawyer William C. Scarritt of the prominent firm of Scarritt, Jones & North. Although a lower court ruled the McCoy suit had no merit, Lawyer Scarritt threatened an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Fearing further delay would cause the selection of another courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed...
...from McCoy Land Co. not mentioned in the contract. Widely known for his oratorical abilities, Lawyer Conrad long has had a large Kansas City real-estate practice. The Missouri Bar Committee's discovery of McCoy's $5,000 fee to Lawyer Conrad resulted from testimony in an Oak Streeter's successful suit against McCoy to re-cover a share of the $35,350 settlement...
...value for the brightness of the sun in comparison with the other stars has been detirmined at the Oak Ridge Station by Dr. Calder, who attains a relatively high precision by the use of the electrical methods of measuring light. He finds, for instance, that the sun in 26.54 magnitudes brighter than the star Capella--that is, over thirty billion times as bright. "His measures for both the Sun and the Moon are appreciably different from the conventionally accepted values, for he finds the sun fainter and the moon brighter...