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...drink, sing and swagger on the 24th anniversary of the First Battle of Bull Run through which they all had fought. 34 Civil War Veterans of Company B, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, met at an inn at Stillwater. Minn, in 1885. There they organized the Last Man Club, pledged to assemble annually until only one member survived. Into a rosewood box they put a bottle of Burgundy with which the Last Man was to toast his dead comrades...
Born. To Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh, at about 3 p. m. on Mrs. Lindbergh's 24th birthday (June 22); at the home of the mother's parents in Englewood, N. J.; a son. Weight: 7 lb., 10 oz. First name: Charles. Middle name undecided, but wagered to be 1) Augustus, 2) Morrow, or 3) Dwight. Residents of Englewood flocked to the thickly-wooded Morrow estate, peered through the gates; a paid program from National Broadcasting Co.'s Manhattan studio was dropped abruptly, the birth announced...
...24th recurrence of this most unique of U. S. music festivals, crowds flocked to Bethlehem last week, paid admission to the Packer Memorial Church at Lehigh University.? The program this year consisted of ten of the 267 chorale-cantatas written by Bach during his Leipzig cantorship (an average of one a month). And, as always, the great Mass in B Minor. Soloists for the cantatas and the Mass were Sopranos Ernestine Hohn-Eberhard and Esther Dale, Contralto Mabel Beddoe, Tenors Arthur Kraft and Arthur Hackett, Bassos Charles T. Tittman and Robert M. Crawford and Organist T. Edgar Shields...
...first shot was fired at the Paris gun at 12:30 Sunday the 24th, and the third shot wounded six of the German gun crew. Another gun went into action this same...
...Detroit, the Anti-Saloon League of America held its 24th national convention. Famed Drys assembled from all over the land to testify to the success of their work, to pledge themselves to further endeavors. Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, director of the Anti-Saloon League, proposed raising $50,000,000 for a ten-year program of "education." Four years ago a similar campaign on a smaller scale was instituted, no report made on its success or cost. Delegates speculated on whence the money would come. Dr. Cherrington said he had no large donors in mind, added...