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...Chicago, Mary Beckman haled Rudolph Beckman to court for nonsupport. As proof that Rudolph was her husband Mary Beckman produced an unused marriage license 25 years old, explained: ''That's all we ever had." The judge lent Rudolph & Mary Beckman $2.85 toward a new $3 license, married them in court with their seven children as witnesses...
Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...affairs is not entirely impossible even though, as your historical comment indicates, it may be quite unlikely, is borne out by the fact that a few years ago a Louisville drug store used to offer, on the occasion of what were called 1? sales, two quarts of excellent, 100 proof, five-year-old Bourbon for $1.01 which on the old time bartender's calculation of 20 drinks to a quart would figure somewhere in the neighborhood of 2½? a drink...
...stitch costumes. She wears orchids, travels abroad to engage talent. Prosperity came in 1929 when Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis, decided to support the company, to use it partly as an outlet for opera talent in the Curtis Institute of Music. Proof of the company's security and artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time...
...outcome of the recent general election in England is a conclusive proof of the fundamental soundness of the English nation. The National party, which is itself overwhelmingly Conservative, swept all opposition aside, and demonstrated that in time of stress that the solid citizens realized the futility of Socialistic Utopia, and reverted to the sound Conservatism of Gladstone...