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...Nebraska there was a lump in the throat of a kindly old man, who wears a skullcap. Loved by many, twitted by many more, Charles W. Bryan, onetime Governor, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924, brother of the late Great Commoner, he had tried to come back in the gubernatorial race, but was defeated by Governor Adam McMullen by a slim margin...
...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...
...short, blue-eyed man, clad in the street garb of a priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
...soon after, Quack Coffee set himself up at Davenport as an "eye, ear, nose and throat" specialist and began a new technique of gull-baiting. He bought full page space in newspapers and thereby gold-knuckled editorial prudence. He called himself a specialist and offered to treat "deafness, head noises from nasal catarrh," and only the American Medical Association objected. Such full page advertisements have become his chief means, with his "sucker list," of exploitation.* Quick flipping of newspaper files show that from January to April of this year he used full page spreads in at least the St. Louis...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...