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...member of the famed Campbell clan, Mr. Moore is descended from the Earl of Argyll who befriended Mary, Queen of Scots. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he has never worn his clan tartan of navy, black, red and green. His interest in the Cowal Games of the U. S. is sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia...
...himself, least considered member of that Imperial family whose fine flower was Augustus, first Emperor of Rome. Born prematurely, and afflicted all his life with a limp, a stammer and a sense of humor. Claudius lived to thank his stars that he was not a conspicuous member of his clan. His grandmother Livia, Augustus' wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal day; thereafter...
...Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive end when a Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware...
...Boettcher told a newshawk that he expected to be elected chairman of American Beet this week. Outstanding among Denver's first financial families, the Boettchers are reported to be one of the three biggest owners of Great Western stock. Last week Denver brokers were predicting that the Boettcher clan would like nothing better than to merge all Midwest sugar companies under their control...
...respectable Alexander Fergusson who had rich holdings in Cragdarroch down the glen. Willie Douglas went off and got married soon after. Annie Fergusson grew plump and placid. Nearly 150 years passed before Willie Douglas' poem was discovered by Lady (John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan...