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...Litchfield ("Litch," "P. W.," "the Old Man"-but not to his face) is a shipbuilder by heritage. Among his ancestors were George Soule, Mayflower passenger; also Alexander Standish and Sarah Alden, kin of famed Miles and famed John. His immediate forebears, notably the ship-owning and sailing Robinsons of Bath, Maine (on his mother's side) were engaged in the shipping industry of New England. He spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront of Boston, where he was born, and Bath where his family summered. When he accepted President Frank A. Seiberling's offer...
...dirty old man? Is this the correction of a horrid error? On the contrary, the story in error had redounded, if anything, entirely to Andrew William Mellon's hygienic credit. The Times had headlined that Mr. Mellon was "staying in old Hotel Bull which has no private bath." Indignant, the old Hotel Bull in Cambridge, England, so old that none knows when it was built, save that it was old enough to be rebuilt in 1546, protested that it had "plenty of baths." in fact no less than three on the floor of Mr. MelIon's suite...
...wish lodgement at the public expense, they do not apply for a vacant cell in the county jail, as in the U. S., but go to the local poorhouse where they are lodged in what is known as the Casual Ward. Here each one is given a meal, a bath, a bed, a nightshirt. The Ministry of Health after an exhaustive investigation of Casual Wards recommended the following improvements...
Last week Warden Hill gave Murphy a bath. Instead of letting the bird dry slowly in the sun, the man decided to try a new method and save time by shaking him first. Explained the warden: "I took him out of the sun and shook him and the water came off in a sprinkle. I shook him some more, rather violently. Then I laid him down in the sunshine on a high window ledge to dry. I think the shaking must have made him dizzy, because he rolled off the ledge and broke his neck...
Other alert Readers who recognized the source of Mme Celarié's story were: James W. Gaynor, Albany, N. Y.; Howard Hildebrand, Lisbon, Ohio; Lee Keidel, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; James L. Stern, Philadelphia; Nelson H. Brooks, New Haven, Conn.; Cyril J. Bath, Cleveland; Edward H. Sapt Jr., Wenonah, N. J.; Gerald V. Strang, Berkeley, Calif.; David H. Shearer, Rochester, N. Y.; Q. L. Quinlivan, Arlington, N. J.; W. A. Gardner, Evanston, 111., Lewis C. Hawkins, Fair Haven...