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Born: at Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13. 1874. Start in life: cowboy. Career: in 1875 his parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker...
...fifth time, when a 6 lb. 6 oz. girl was born in a Fort Worth, Tex. hospital. The baby's parents: Second Son Elliott and his second wife Ruth Googins, who were married last July, five days after Elliott had divorced Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt at Minden, Nev. (TIME, July 31) The baby's name: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, picked by her mother before she was born. Said Grandmother Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt: "Of course I'm thrilled to have another granddaughter, and awfully glad she has arrived. I shall certainly hope to see her this summer...
...Smaller: Pierre, S. Dak. (pop. 3.659). Carson City, Nev...
Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley, a great-great-grandnephew of the Duke of Wellington, who last June married a hat-checker in a Reno. Nev. night club, announced that he had bought a ranch in Washoe Valley, Nev.. planned to renounce his seat in the House of Lords, become a U. S. citizen. Explained he: "My wife and the life of the West mean more to me than titles. We shall be immensely happy on our little ranch. We shall have sufficient pasture for my horses, raise a little hay, and settle down to being happy...
...only about 30 persons," for Claire Delmar, Swiss actress, in Los Angeles' swank Embassy Club, when belligerent Peter Arno, sexy cartoonist of the New Yorker, entered the club with Film Actress Sally O'Neil. Cartoonist Arno, who two years ago was chased across the landscape of Reno, Nev. by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. with an unloaded pistol, was introduced to Miss Delmar, became angry when Actor Steele "explained at that moment that there was just one thing that he lacked-besides being born a man he had failed to be born a gentleman." Cartoonist Arno swung wildly, missed. Sock...