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Died, Alma, Marchioness of Breadalbane, 77, widow of Gavin Campbell, seventh Earl, first Marquess of Breadalbane; at her home in Oban, Scotland. Remembered was her ownership of the million-dollar set of gold plate often loaned to the Perth Railroad Station to sharpen the appetite of Queen Victoria on stopovers between Windsor and Balmoral; her feat at 74 of stalking, shooting and killing six stags with six successive shots...
...Earl Sande, most famed jockey in the U. S., his cheerful little face pinched by the strain of making weight, had won three Derbies and wanted another to break the record. He was wearing Mrs. "Jock" Whitney's fuchsia silks, as was Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, whom she had chosen to ride Stepenfetchit. Ten years ago, when he was regarded as the best rider in the country, Ensor's conviviality grew so pronounced that no trainer dared trust him with a mount. This year, reformed at 34, his comeback has been even more dramatic than Sande...
Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...
Howard Edwards was jolted to the hospital in an ambulance. There attendants kept him awake while Dr. Earl Hubert Snavely examined him. Dr. Snavely whispered some words to the attendants and they led Howard Edwards down a corridor toward a room. At the door of the room they turned him around, led him back. Howard Edwards began to protest. "I gotta sleep," said...
...Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese...