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...together with several members of Otto's family. Mr. Collier has been drawing Otto for the last eight years, and has been so successful that he has added considerably to the family, of which the most prominent members are May, his wife; Mrs. Lotts Biggar, his mother-in-law; Dewey and Wanna, the twins, and Lotta, Kenny, and Willie, the other children. Mr. Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name...
...week drew to a close Miss Veronica Purviance of Montevideo, Uruguay, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., despatched to H. R. H. Edward of Wales an invitation to attend her impending wedding to one Leo Dewey Welch of Buenos Aires. Friends of Miss Purviance exulted: "The Prince of Wales gave Veronica a heavy rush last year in Montevideo, but she never forgot good old Leo Welch...
...march Great Britain's claims for reparation for damage done her citizens at lloilo in the Philippines were denied, but the American government was declared liable for the looting of British owned houses in Lavite, also in the Philippines, when a crew of Chinese sailors from one of Admiral Dewey's supply ships received leave of absence without guard, and scuttled residences of British subjects...
Married. Miss Marian Bleakley, who attracted nation-wide interest in 1904 when exhibited as a two-pound "incubator baby" at the St. Louis World's Fair; to one Dewey W. Brown; at Topeka...
...Schley "trial" was not a court martial, but only a Court of Inquiry, and it was called at Schley's request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley...