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...second. Author Lagerlöf's world is a settled, mildly prosperous land whose natives bother their heads more about the price of eggs than the noble army of martyrs. On the modest but hereditary family estate of Marbacka, Selma Lagerlf spent most of her childhood. Her sister Anna was the beauty of the family; Selma was towheaded and not pretty, had been sent away to Stockholm's Orthopedic Institute to help her lameness. An undemonstrative child, she loved her father fiercely; when he was dangerously ill she made a vow to God that if his life were...
...boss the President. He recalls that Woodrow Wilson bridled a bit at first at the precautions taken for him by the Secret Service. But the only Secret Service charge completely to defy the organization to date is Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. She stead fastly refuses a bodyguard, although her son James's family has one to protect her grandchild...
Died, Allen B. Cook. 85, gentleman farmer; after long illness: in Massena, N. Y. Mr. Cook's daughter, Nancy, is a close friend of Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and her associate in the Valkill Furniture Shop at Hyde Park, N. Y., the Todhunter School in Manhattan...
Marriage Voided. Jackson Barnett, 90, "wealthiest" Oklahoma Indian; and Mrs. Anna Laurie Lowe Barnett, white; by a U. S. District Court; in Los Angeles. The court held Indian Barnett "mentally incompetent," gave his $300,000 estate to the U. S. Department of the Interior for administration, declared Mrs. Barnett might be employed in the Barnett household, should not be considered Barnett's wife (TIME...
Black Beauty (1877) Anna Sewell...