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Died. Mrs. Annie 'Fellows Johnston, 68, authoress, after long illness; at Pewee Valley, Ky. Born in Evansville, Ind. she attained fame as the author of the "Little Colonel'' books, a series of juvenilia much admired by the girls of the last generation. The heroine, a bright child with golden curls, was the favorite of her old Confederate grandpapa, hence her nickname. Mrs. Johnston began writing "Little Colonel" books in 1892, definitely ended the series in 1929. Several years ago she was told that a child had undergone a major operation without anesthetic on being promised a shelf...
...evenings at Washington's George Washington University. He spent his summer nights for four years writing The Lady Who Came to Stay. When he sent the unsolicited MS to Publisher Knopf he enclosed a self-addressed return wrapper. The wrapper was not used. Author Spencer now lives in Indianapolis. Ind...
...bare, lifeless clay knoll surrounded by abandoned coal diggings on the farm of Charles Elkins near Linton, Ind. last week attained national distinction. In Washington the Census Bureau designated it as the dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically...
...Hammond, Ind., Policeman Ralph Hart saw a funeral passing through the streets on the way from East Chicago to Indiana Harbor. Policeman Hart gazed sympathetically at the mourners following the hearse. The mourners returned cheerful, contented looks. Policeman Hart, puzzled, scratched his head, remembered cheerful, contented looks on the faces of other mourners following other hearses that had passed through Hammond that day. Then Policeman Hart remembered there was no cemetery in Indiana Harbor. After the funeral he ran, threw open the hearse door, found inside many cases of liquor...