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In Lossiemouth, Scotland on Oct. 12, 1866 at 11:30 p. m. the future Prime Minister was born to Miss Anne Ramsay. Patient investigators can still see the birth certificate attesting him a bastard in the Parish Registry at Drainie. In signing the certificate Miss Ramsay termed herself a "domestic...
Widespread during the past month has been this rumor: Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr., 17-month-old son of the No. 1 U. S. hero, is deaf and so has not learned to talk. Cause of the affliction was supposed to have been the pre-natal drumming of airplane motors...
Married, James J. Couzens, 83, father of Senator James Couzens of Michigan; and a Mrs. Anne Cason, 67, of Pomona, Calif, whom he met eight months ago; in Riverside, Calif.
Birthday. Of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: his 81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General...
The system: Most brokers announced before the General Election that they thought the National Government would win a majority of 210 seats. Pessimists who "sold" (bet) one pound against this majority lost a pound for each seat that the National Government's majority went above 210, and it went...