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...first issue of Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...Theatre, officials of the Boston Emergency Relief Administration rode out to the Belmont home of Mrs. Cordelia Howard MacDonald. Mrs. MacDonald, now 86 was the original "Little Eva." At the age 14 in her father's theatrical troupe, she scrambled across the ice floes on a stage at Troy, N. Y., ascended to heaven on a telegraph wire. All her life Mrs. MacDonald has been sitting sweetly through performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the play has been given in Boston, Mrs. MacDonald has always had the best box, been reported crying softly during the death scene...
...York. With immense energy the Gubernatorial nominee, Robert Moses, New York City's Commissioner of Parks, belabored Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. It was Jew v. Jew and the lie was passed, but nobody was interested. With equally stern purpose the Republican nominee for Senator, Ernest Harold Cluett (of Troy's Cluett Peabody & Co., makers of Arrow Collars) bid for the job of Democratic Senator Copeland. If Republican Cluett had loudly trumpeted that he wore no man's collar, voters might have listened and laughed. Instead he remained very much on the inside pages because he persisted...
Pressed by Carl Lomen and Governor John W. Troy, who wired an urgent appeal from Juneau, Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins dug down into his misery chest for $50,000 to rebuild and re-victualize the ashy remains of Nome...
...below the belt." No mere stenographer was she. The little 100-lb., 5-ft. high "Robbie" is a self-made woman. Washington thinks she is a Jewess, but she has deliberately veiled her early life in mystery, admitting only that she was born on Christmas Day, 1906 in Troy, N. Y., and was reared in Illinois. She once had a job with Radio Corporation of America. In the summer of 1933 General Johnson picked her up at Democratic headquarters in Washington...