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Some 1,200 years ago lived a stout Bishop of Liege named Hubert. A mighty hunter was he, whose horn would sound right valiantly through the Forest of Ardennes. After his death Hubert was sainted; he had traditionally been converted on a Good Friday when, hunting, he saw a miraculous stag with a shining crucifix between its antlers. A patron of hunters, St. Hubert may be invoked in cases of hydrophobia...
Married. Harriet Stanton De Forest, daughter of Inventor Lee De Forest by first of three marriages; and Marshall C. Allaben Jr., Greenwich real estate man; in Greenwich. Conn. The wedding date was the birthday anniversary of the bride's maternal great-grandmother. Suffraget Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
...Baltimore, Edgar R. Dobson bought some "strictly fresh" eggs, found written on one "Hazel Roe, Forest Hill, Md." Edgar R. Dobson ate the egg, wrote to Miss...
Flashback: In 1915 Henry Harlan Pyle drove a team from his father's farm to the Forest Hill general store, chaffed Hazel Roe and Bessie Walbeck who were busy packing eggs for shipment. Playful Henry Pyle tickled the girls, wrote their names & addresses on several eggs. Whenever he went to Forest Hill thereafter he asked the girls whether any egg-eaters had written to them. At length he married Bessie Walbeck, had five children. Hazel Roe married and moved to Belair, Md. There last fortnight she received Edgar R. Dobson's letter...
...points of courtesy, Matthew Williams Stirling, Smithsonian ethnologist, told Washington's Anthropological Society last week. He spent eight weeks with the head-hunting Jivaros, "a simple, rather kindly people," who notify their enemies of intended raids. The "victims" at once dig pitfalls and set trap guns along forest paths, post watchdogs around their tribal house, hide indoors with their women and children until the attack begins...