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...Browning's works there is shown "Love Among the Ruius" written in a minute hand and on four little scraps of paper. Mrs. Browning's well-known "Aurora Leigh" is revealed in its primitive form as a printer's manuscript...
...THORNTON Aurora...
Dwindling Mania. For the great Sit-Down Mania, though dwindling, had not yet exhausted itself. In Michigan, strikes in Reo and Hudson plants were still going strong. At Aurora. Ill., a sit-downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...
...knew who it was that had jumped, and why. He was Ray Wood, a professional diver from high bridges who had plunged safely from the 110-ft. Merchant's Bridge in St. Louis, twice from Steve Brodie's 165-ft. Brooklyn Bridge,* once from a 170-ft. Aurora Bridge over Lake Union at Seattle. Going off the 185-ft. San Francisco-Oakland Bridge was Wood's 185th high bridge dive. Had it been successful he hoped for a permit to dive (for a fee) from the new 220-ft. Golden Gate Bridge whence nine men fell...
Adopted. By Mrs. William Teaham, sister of Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, onetime U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth; a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Mary (after the Governor's deceased mother) Aurora (after the wife of Philippine President Manuel Quezon...