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Carrie Belle Wilson, daughter of a choir-leader, turned out her first anthem, He That Dwelleth in the Secret Place, at 16. She had already grown to love Allyn Groves Adams, 23-year-old bass in a Paris, Ill. church choir. They married when she was 21 and Mr. Adams went into the hominy business. In 1906 Carrie Belle Adams became associate editor of the Choir Herald, for which she has since written an article or an anthem every month, year in, year out. Her total output: 4,000 compositions, has made more money from high-school operettas and church...
...BASS-Wayne Gard-Houghton Mifflin...
...Gloucester, Mass., Coast Guardsmen laboriously towed a dead and odorous 60-ton whale off Bass Rock Beach seven miles to sea, were chagrined that evening to see the whale in Gloucester Harbor, towed in again by a public-spirited yachtsman to remove a menace to navigation...
...Madison Square Garden; putting up a gorilla at Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel. One stunt he denies any connection with was plumping the midget (Lia Graf) on J. P. Morgan's knee. Of circus freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show...
...Cumberland, Wis., Joe Hecht, 28, hooked a large bass, became so excited that he tangled his feet in the line, fell into the water, drowned...