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...Halloween, 1926, mischievous Charles Vance Millar, rich, unmarried Canadian lawyer, silver mine owner and race track gambler, died in Toronto. When his will was examined it was found that he had left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be counted, the offspring might be born alive or dead, legitimate or illegitimate. With Oct. 31 just six weeks away, the Toronto baby derby last week entered the home stretch. Five fecund women were running almost neck & neck. Of these, three would be out of the money if anyone bettered their record...
Since Mrs. Clarke bore twin sons last July, the best she can do is to keep tied with...
...this, in spite of the fact that graduation and scholastic difficulties took an almost unprecedented toll among letter men. Among those laid low by probation are Captain Emile Dubiel, who was a stellar end last year, Don Jackson, who bore the brunt of the line bucks, George Blackwood, another back, and Thomas Husband, a line man. In addition to these who were expected back is Leo Ecker, who is still incapacitated by a leg injury suffered in the hockey season last winter...
...Throne. Previous shots of His Majesty had been so notably lugubrious as to start the rumor that "since his father's death, King Edward has never smiled." At least one British weekly took the new pictures last week as text to prove that "top-drawer" Britons decidedly bore Edward VIII, while he visibly expands in such company as that of Mrs. Simpson, "a real wisecracking American...
...Patriarch Young's 27 wives, he married 19 in five years. On more than one occasion he married two on the same day and on Jan. 21, 1846, wed four, one pair before lunch, one pair after. Mormon Young's original favorite wife, Emmeline Free Young, bore him ten children. In the Young menage, three children were once born the same month, two the same...