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A film company was testing an 'audiometer' to measure audience response to screen jokes, assigning numerical values to how strongly a theater crowd reacted.
Ranger Daily Times · Sept. 26, 1926 · p. 6
Open the original newspaper ↗A photo feature introduced Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf as 'Big Chief Lone Bear' after Arapahoe people working at a Hollywood studio adopted him into the tribe.
Ranger Daily Times · Sept. 26, 1926 · p. 6
Open the original newspaper ↗Ford announced that the five-day week was becoming standard across its operations, with Saturday and Sunday free while the workday remained eight hours.
The Oregon Statesman · Sept. 26, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗A 16-year-old bridegroom who had eloped with his 25-year-old bride escaped a detention home — then voluntarily returned, saying that 'freedom wasn't so sweet.'
The Oregon Statesman · Sept. 26, 1926 · p. 1
Open the original newspaper ↗Newfoundland swimmer Louis Hennessey collapsed after five hours and forty minutes during a Catalina-to-mainland attempt, still several miles from the finish.
The Oregon Statesman · Sept. 26, 1926 · p. 1
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