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The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Gable Is
Striving for
100000
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1891. King Features
SNndiCatel

,' syndicate)
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29.-One
of the screens greatest matinee
idols-and he wants to be a
rolling stone.
Sitting on the set, Clark Gable
admitted to me he still can't be-
lieve his good fortune-fortune
that has enabled him, in one
year, to play opposite Joan Craw-
ford, Norma Shearer, Greta
Carlo, and now Marion Davies.
The strangest part Of it is, he
doesn't want to go on with this
glamorous life indefinitely. What
he really wants, he confeSSes, is
100000 and a chance to travel
in the out-of-the-way places of
the world.
IT signed my fiye-year contract
against the advice Of my agent
and even my wife, he told me.
MY object was to get enough
to retire on. And I was willing
to devote five years of my life
to it. Maybe I won't last that
long on the screen. I'm not a
great actor and I never will be.
But I believe I know my business.
You can't work for ten years
with veteran stage stars and not
absorb something"
Already, Clark is laying plans
for the future. "I own two cars,
which I paid cash for" he ex-
planned to me. II rent my apart
ment-but for. six months, not a
year. I don't even own my
furniture. I'm saving my money"
This actor, who has set film
fans agog the world over, doesn't
know much about Hollywood
social life. Marion Davies has
introduced him to most of the
stars he has met.
But he is a purposeful man,
one who is likely to realiz- his
ambitions. If he still desires it,
you can look to- see him a rolling
stone in 1886.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-"The
Animal Kingdom" the Gilbert
Miller-Leslie Howard production
of Philip Barry's new play, with
Mr.. Howard as the star, will open
tonight at the Nixon Theater,
Pittsburgh. 1t will be presented
the first three days of next week
in Mr.. Barry's birthplace, RocheS-
ter. and will have it's New York
premiere at the Bfoadhurst Thea
ter on Friday evening, January g.
Arch Selwyn announces that he
has become associated in the
production of the forthcoming
revue THE Jazz City" Ina Claire
is being mentioned for the show,
which will go in rehearsal next
Monday, with Jack Haley, Eliza
beth Hines, Rod La ROGUE, Doug
las Byng and Evelyn Hoey as
leading players.
Sir Philip Ben Greet and his
company of Shakespearean play
ers will begin an engagement Of
six performances at the County
Centre, White Plains, tonight with
Julius Caesar" The Greet COM
pany has just completed a tour
through the West and Southwest.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
BEWARE THE COUGH OR
COLD THAT HANGS ON

Persistent coughs and colds lead to
serious trouble. You can stop them now
with Creomulsion, an emulsified creosote
that is pleasant to take. Creomulsion is
new medical discovery with two.fold ac-
tion; it soothes and heals the inAamed
membranes and inhibits germ growth.
Of all known drugs, creosote is recog-
nized by high medical authorities as one
of the greatest healing agencies for per-
.sistent coughs and colds and other forms
ofthroat troubles. Creomulsion contains,
in addition to creosote, other healing ele,
ments which soothe and heal the infected
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
did Won Know

Did You Know
That Joel McCrea was an en-
ploye of a cement company and
helped build the sidewalks and
curbS on Hollywood Boulevard?
The Washington times., 1931-12-29

membranes and stop the irritation and
Inflammation, while the creOsote goes
on to the stomach, is absorbed into the
blood, attacks the seat of the trouble
and checks the growth of the germs.
Creomulsion is guaranteed satisfac-
tory in the treatment of persistent
coughs and colds, bronchial asthma,
bronchitis and other forms of respira-
tory diseases, and is excellent for
building up the system after colds or
flu. Money refunded if any cough or
cold, no matter of how long standing,
is not relieved after taking according
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Great Aviator Says He
Has No "Speed Complex"

The worlds greatest salesman of
speed, Flyer Frank Hawkes., has
taken a day off from flying to protest
that he is mot a speed Demon" that
he does not want to be a demon, that
he is never reckless, that he does not
race, that he is not after records.
He is, he protests in the Ameri-
can Magazine, merely a salesman
of speed" Why does he seek to
sell speed? Because he is convinced
that the main advance made by pres
ent-day civilization lies in the accel-
GRAFTON with which things can be
transferred from one place to an
other.
But the speed he sells-so he in
sists-is no. freak speed, attained
in freakish apparatus, under special
conditions. 1t is honest speed, at
tainable by anyone. II is good, con-
servative, almost humdrum speed
In reaching it he is never after rec
Ords, he is simply cruising, sort of,
at a dogtrOt, conserving his engine,
conserving himself-so he says!
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

ments; Il pleated white shirt, soft
and of exquisite material; a black
string tie; trousers tucked into the
gay boot-tOps; and, always, white
felt hat, broad-brimmed and rolling.
On occasion he simply blubbered
Shakespeare, the Old Testament,
the Odyssey, the Had. His speech
was spattered with bits of Latin,
and with occasional Spanish
phrases relic of his Texas days. He
tlattered you with his fine eyes; he
bewitcheC you with his voice; he
mesmeriZed you with his hands. He
drank a quart of whisky a day; was
almost never drunk, but on rare
occasions when the liquor fumes
bested him he would invariably Sc
lect a hapleSs victim and, whipping
out the pair of mOther-o pearl
handled siX-shoOters he always
wore at his belt, would force him TO
dance by shooting at his feet-a
pleasing fancy brought with him
from Texas and the Cimarron.
Afterward, sObered. he was always
filed with shame. Wine, he quoted
sadly, is a mocker, strong drink is
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Birds Pay Tribute to
Singers Golden Voice

NinOn Nallin, the French Operatic
star, is woman st. Francis, one of
her most regular and devoted audi
ences consisting of hundreds of
small birds which come flying to the
window of her home in France as
soon as she starts singing. They
stay perched on the windOw-sills
and even on the piano until she
stops. Il have always adOred BIRDS"
she explained, in very broken Eng
lish, to a reporter when | was
little l had lot of them in cages, but
my father hated to see them in cap
tivity. SO he let them out in the
garden, but instead of flying away,
they stayed and used to swarm
round me whenever | started TO
sing" Asked how she first start
ed her career, Madame Vallin re-
piled smilingly, "In church. Some
influential people had heard my
voice in church, and insisted on my
trying first in Lyons. then in Paris,
with the result that after singing at
charity performance Da Costa
heard me and Immediately booked
me for a huge tour in South Amer
lea. Since then" she added laugh
ing, Il have never stopped singing"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

marron, and to this she brings all Of
the glamor and adventure of the
great Southwest. You will thrill at
the description of the great rush of
land seekers across the border line
between Kansas and Oklahoma of
April %, 1889; you will enjoy Yam
cey Cravat as land seeker, as edi-
tor. as pioneer; you will love his
energetic and capable wife and her
ability 10 carry on when Yancey
fails With Yancey she Joined the
Oklahoma run" Into this wilder
ness OF rattlesnakes, Indians, bad
men, she took her four-year-old
son. They saw the wilderness into
which they had rushed with thou
sands of others made populous in
an hour, and cities numbering thou
sands of people springing up over
night. There's never been anything
like il since creation" said the wife.
Creation, H-l," said Yancey, That
took six days"
Cimarron is destined to be ranked
among the greatest of American
historical romances, and as a serial
II is story you are going to ap-
preciate more than any other you
have read for a long, long time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Good-Natured Man

Here is one who may be termed a
gOOd-natured man. He lives in a
nearby town, and is the divorced
husband of a red-headed woman by
whom he had five children. Does
the fact that she has married an
other make him sore? Not at all.
And to cap the climax of good ma
turedness with dog-like devotion,
this gOod-natured man lives with his
former wife and her new husband
and supports the entire family, both
his own children and the other fell
lows children without a whimper
and seems to like it. This has been
going on for some years and the
family seems to be a wholly friendly
combinatiOn.-BrOckton Enterprise.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
FOREWORD

ONLY the more fantastic and i'm
~ probable events contained in
this book are true There is no at
tempt to set down a literal history
of Oklahoma All the characters.
the towns. and many of the hap
peningS contained herein are imagi-
nary. But through reading the
scant available records, documents.
and histories Gncluding the Okla
hOma State Historical library col
lection) and through many talks
with men and women who have
lived in Oklahoma since the day of
the Opening, something of the spir-
fl. the color, the movement. the
life of that incredible common
wealth has. | hope. been caught
Certainly the Run. the Sunday serv-
ice in the gambling tent. the death
of Isaiah and of Arita Red Feather.
the catching of the can of nitro
glycerin. many of the shooting af-
trays. most descriptive passages, all
of the oil phase. and the Usage In
dian material cOmplete-these are
based on actual happenings. In
many cases material entirely true
was discarded as unfit for use be-
cause ii was so melOdramatic, so
absurd as to be too strange for the
realm IF fiction.
There is no city of Usage. Okla.
1t is a composite of. perhaps. FIVE
existent Oklahoma cities. The Kid
is not meant to be the notorious
Billy the Kid of an earlier day.
There was no Yancey Cravat-he is
a blending of a number of dashing
Oklahoma figures of IA past and
present day. There is no Sabra
Cravat. but she exists in a score
of bright-eyed. white-haired. in
tenseIy interesting women of sixty
FIVE or Whereabouts who told me
many strange things as we talked
and rocked on an Oklahoma front
porch (tree-shaded nOw).
Anything can have happened in
Oklahoma. Practically everything
has.
EDNA FERBER.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
CHAPTER I

a LII the Venables sat at Sunday
"A dinner. All those handsome
inbred Venable faces were turned.
enthralled, toward Yancey Cravat,
who was talking. The combined ef-
feet was almost binding, as of in
candeScence; but Yancey Cravat
was not bedaZZled A sun sur
rounded by lesser planets, he gave
out a radiance so powerful as to
dim the luminous circle about him.
The Venables. dining, strangely
reSembled one of those fertile and
dramatic family groups portrayed
lOlling uncOnventiOnally at meat in
the less spiritual of those Biblical
canvases that glow richly down at
one from the great gallery walls of
Europe. Though their garb was
sober enough. being characteristic
of the time-1SS9-and the place
Kansas-it yet conveyed an impress
sion as of purple and scarlet robes
envelOping these gracile shoulders
This branch of the Venable fam
lily tree had been transplanted from
Mississippi TO Kansas more than
two decades before. but the Mid
west had failed to set her bourgeois
stamp upon them Straitened
though it was, there still obtained
in that household. by some gene
illogical miracle, many of those
charming ways. remotely oriental.
that were of the South whence they
had sprung. Unwilling emigres. war
ruined. Lewis Venable and his wife
Felice had brought their dear Gus
toms with them into exile, as well
as the superb mahogany oval at
which they now sat, and the war
Salvaged silver which gave elegance
to the Wichita. Kansas, board.
AS the family sat at its MONDAY
meal it was plain that while two
decades of living in the Middle
West had done little to quicken the
speech or hasten the movements of
Lewis Venable and his wife Felice
tthey still 'you-alled"; they de-
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Anti Typhoid Serum

Ferdinand Vidal, a native of AL
giers and professor in the Paris fac
ulty, cOllaborated with Chautemesse
in his early work on preventive vac
cinations against typhoid fever, and
made his mark by his discovery of
bacterial agglutination in 1895, and
its application in the diagnosis of
typhoid. Sir Almroth Edward Wright,
professor of pathology, made typhoid
vaccination practicable in 1896 and
1897, inoculating over 5000 soldiers
in India in 1898.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

raging. Yancey Cravat could have
been lin fact was, though most of
America never knew it) the great
est criminal lawyer of his day. 1t
was said that he hypnOtized jury
with his eyes and his hands and
his voice. His law practice yielded
him nothing, or less than that, for
being sentimental and melodramatic
he usually found himself out of
pocket following his brilliant and
successful defense of some Dodge
City dance-hall girl or rolstering
cowboy whose six-shooter had been
pointed the wrong way.
His past, before his coming to
Wichita, was clouded with myths
and surmises. Gossip said this;
SANDER whispered that. Rumor,
romantic, unsavory, fantastic, shift
ing and changing like clouds on a
mountain peak, fioated about the
head of Yancey Cravat. They say
he has Indian blood in him. They
say he has an Indian wife some
where. and lot of papooses.
Cherokee. They say he used to be
known as "CimarrOn" Cravat,
hence his sons name, corrupted to
Gin. They say his real name is
Cimarron Seven, of the Choctaw
Indian family of Sevens; he was
raised in a tepee; a wickiup had
been his bedroom, a blanket his
robe. 1t was known he had been
one Of the early boomers who fol-
lowed the banner of the picturesque
and splendidly mad David Payne in
the first wild dash of that adven-
turer into Indian territory. He had
dwelt, others whispered. in that
sinister strip, thirty-four miles
wide and almost two hundred miles
long, called No-Man's Land as early
as 1854. and, later, known as the
Cimarron, a Spanish word meaning
wild or unruly. Here. in this
strange unOwned empire without
laws and without a government, a
paradise for horse thieves, murder
ers, desperadoes it was rumOred he
had spent at least year (and for
good reason) They said the evil
dences of his Indian blood were
plain; look at his skin, his hair.
his manner of walking. And why
did he protest in his newspaper
against the governments treatment
of those dirty, thieving, lazy, good
for-nothing wards of a beneficent
country AS for his newspaper
very name was a scandal: The
chita Wigwam. And just below
this: All the News. Any Scandal
Not Libelous. Published Once a
Week If Convenient Wichita, pro-
Tossing Scorn of the Wigwam, read
it. Wichita perused his maiden
editorial entitled. "Shall the Blue
Blood of the Decayed South Poison
the Red Blood of the Great Middle
West?" and saw him. two months
later, carry off in triumph as his
bride Sabra Venable, daughter of
that same Decay. Sabra Venable,
at sixteen, might have had her pick
of the red-blOoded lads of Kansas,
all the way from Salina to Winfield.
Not to mention more legitimate
suitors of -blOoded stock up
from the South. such as Dabney
Venable himself, Sabra's cousin,
who resembled at once Lafayette
and old Lewis. even to the prema-
ture silver of his hair, the length
Of the fine. dolichocephalic. slightly
decadent head, and the black stock
at sight of which Wichita gasped.
When. from among all these ELI
gibles, Sabra had chosen the roman
tic but mysterious Cravat. Wichita
mothers of marriageable daughters
felt themselves revenged of the
Venable airs. Strangely enough,
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
New Helicopter Tested

Tests of new form of helicopter
invented by Oehmichen, the French
engineer, are said to have been sue
ceSsful. The trails were made at
Velentigney, near Paris. In, the
first test Oelmichen made an abso-
lutely vertical flight of 200 feet with
perfect stabilization, which was fol-
lowed by a perfect descent.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Three Ages

Mary Jane entered public school
when few months past five years old.
After few days at school she went
to neighbor's and said:
"You know l got three ages?"
"NO; how does that happen?' the
neighbOr said.
swell, l am six at school, five at
home and four on the street car"
she replied.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Thickly Settled Districts

Rhode Island leads in density OF
population with 1864 persons to the
square mile. Massachusetts is sec
ond. No state compares in density
of population with the District of
Columbia, with 1929 persons to
the square mile.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Discussion

"Boy, how are you going to sue
ceed in business when you can't
spell?"
Cant l get a stenographer who
CAM"
'If you don't, you'll never know
the difference. ."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Supremely So

Are you happy, darling?' cooed
the bride.
"Dearest"' he exclaimed, I'm as
happy rs the man who has just paid
the last installment on his carl"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
LAUNDERING Note

By cutting only trees II inches OF
more in diameter, it is estimated
that forests in the Great Lakes re-
gion of the United States will pro-
duce stands of merchantable lum-
ber every % or so years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Uniformity in Woman

Although group of women vary
quite lot in their individual
height, there is said to be a sur
prising uniformity in the distance
between their elbows and the
ground.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

eel VI tuluiil,
and Person
a lity p | u s.,
sketches have
e n I ert a / n e q
m iii o n S o {
readers. In her
more ambitious
production. $50
Big" she gave
TO America a
chara teriZa-
tion that is to-
day ranked as
a ella ssic of our
literature. and
now she has
turned to the
historical ro-
IN a n c e a n d
OiraC nc 1Cf
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Picture the Growth

Every four years enough new
homes are built in this country to
make city the size of New York
Woman's Home Companion.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Everybody's Mistake

It's almost universal, the error of
thinking we can size people up the
first time we see them.-American
Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Call 1t a Museum

An antique shop is sort of muse
um visited largely by people who
have no intention of buying.-Ameri-
can Magazine.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

If a man doesn't care for smoking
he is going to quit without a regret
some time in his life.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Sound Effects

'YOur horses hOofs in this picture
do not sound natural"
Il know it. We used real horses"
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24
Losing Step With the Joneses

MY dear, | can't get nurse for
love or money-my baby carriage
is last years model !"-Passing
Show.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

Petitions don't weigh much because
everybody knows how casually they
are signed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

Inwardness, mildness and self-re-
nOuncement do make for a mans
appineSS.-Arnold.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

DecOllete bathing costumes are all
right as far as they go.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

If you draw a pistol at a rattle
there Is no harm done.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-07-24

Edna Ferber has given TO America
many great stories. Her Roast
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-11-19

A special sale of linoleum rugs
see Forster's ad on page seven.
Mrs. Oscar Schott and Mrs. Ziegler
of Franklin were Saturday callers
here
Albert Hansen of Hector and Ed.
Beske of Bird Island spent Saturday
here.
The Sorosis club will meet Monday
afternoon, November %, at the home
of Mrs. Ray Tenney.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Virgins and
family were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Virgins.
Mrs. Alma Bellig and Mrs. Frank
Beyersdorf of Lamberton were here
on business last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Carlson and
William L. Sikel of Lake Benton
visited at the j. Albert johnson home
Saturday.
Corn, peas or tomatoes at three
cans for rs cents-See the A. and p.
ad on page three.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mertz spent
Sunday with their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Beck
er at Clements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Barnum motored
to Marshall Sunday. Enroute home
they visited with Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Winn at Wabasso.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Nelson came
here Sunday to spend the day with
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Whiting.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-11-19

Mrs. G. Kuenzli went to De Smet,
South Dakota Monday for visit with
her sister, Mrs. Dyar.
Come to Dist. IA, New Avon Town
ship Friday evening, November 20, to
enjoy a kiddies program and box So
cial.
Potted blooming Chrysanthemums,
so cents each for Saturday. Redwood
Falls Green House. COLT.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Hassinger and
son Roger went to Echo Sunday
where they were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Evanson.
Everything you need for the Thanks
giving day table at bargain prices
Turn to our announcement on page
six-Hanck's Grocery.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Nicholson will
leave next Wednesday for Belgrade
and Sank Center where they will
spend the Thanksgiving holiday with
their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. o. Nelson and Mr..
and Mrs Storey of Comfrey came
here last Wednesday to attend the
football game and were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Whiting. Mr.. Mel
son is brother of Mrs. Whiting.
Glenn Miller and AL Schneidermey-
RI of Luverne spent from Tuesday un-
til Saturday of last week here on bust
ness. They were accompanied here
by Mrs. Ernest Prick Evelyn Warn
err who visited with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Warner.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-11-19
STORE HERE WINS

The Redwood Falls A. and P. store
placed first in sales contest in COM
petition with nine other stores in the
district according to report received
this week by M. v. Kirschner, man.
sger. The district placed first among
All the districts in the northwest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-11-19

The Community Thanksgiving
Service will be held in the
Church of Christ Wednesday
evening, November Is, at 1880
o'clock. DR.. j. p. Linn of the
First Presbyterian church will
give the address of the evening
and music for the occasion will
be furnished by the choir Of the
Church of Christ. The Offering
received will 60 for local relief
work.