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...Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet...
...Leslie: She was born at West Burlington, Iowa, in 1860, one year before the Civil War began. Dramatically she has suggested her early martial impressions: "Before my ears were attuned to music or my eyes keen for sunshine, the muffled throb of drums and shuffling feet beating time bore strange wonderings to my small, eager mind." After she was graduated from St. Mary's Academy (South Bend, Ind.) in 1876, she took to the light operatic stage, appearing in La Mascotte, Fatinitza, Erminie, The Mikado, H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance. During this period she married Harry Brown...
Though white, Widow Rose Julian lived on the fringe of Chicago's "Black Belt." As her lover she took Joseph A. Murphy, also white. Seven months ago she bore a son. He had red hair. She named him Little Joe, after his father. Big Joe got very angry. He swore Little Joe was not his. Present was Mary Linder. Mary was black. Mary's husband, Willie, was a Negro contractor at 5222 South La Salle St. Widow Julian put white Little Joe into Mary's black hands, told her to take him away, care...
...Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail for England. A fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh colony. She was the first English child born in America. Nine days later (Aug. 27) her grandfather, Capt. White, sailed back to England in the third ship to fetch more men and supplies. When he returned four years later he found...
...extemporaneous committee which has been formed to handle the contributions also reports receipt of two handkerchiefs (used). One bore the initials F. H. H. on a corner...