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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discreet, even reticent, the Wall Street Journal deceived no one who knows the coal mining district of Scranton, Pa., and neighboring, suburban Dalton. For as every Scrantonian knows, a major glory of Dalton is the large, old house (recently remodeled) of Salt Tycoon Mortimer B. Fuller. And as every saltman knows, the Fullers (Grandfather Edward L., Father...
Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford, Pa...
Died. Miles F. Fox, 19, Navy footballer and predicted backfield star, of Steelton, Pa.; from sunstroke; after the first day's practice at Annapolis...
...their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...
When the great and fake oath was first penned or by whom, nobody can say. It was circulated first in Chester County, Pa., about 1912; it was read into the Congressional Record during a discussion in regard to the seating in Congress of the Hon. Thomas S. Butler, charged with its circulation in an effort to excite religious antipathies. It is doubtful whether Thomas Butler himself wrote the oath. The career of the bogus oath has been obscure; five years ago it was considered obsolete; recently no less than a million copies have been handed about. The Knights of Columbus...