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Birthday. Of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: his 81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie...
Austrian-born Engineer Gustav Lindenthal, builder of New York City's Hellgate Bridge, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnels under the Hudson River and planner of the prospective bridge to span the Hudson at Manhattan's 57th Street, celebrated his 81st birthday and said: "In half a century, perhaps . . . New York will . . . rise a great, white, shining city, such as the world has never known, and men will be more at peace there than anywhere on the earth. . . . But I know what will happen in 200 years. . . . New York will be like a ripe apple. All things...
...course everybody had to do what Grandpapa liked on his 81st birthday, because he was something called "President...
Therefore last week Helga and Gertrud, the two little granddaughters of Old Paul von Hindenburg, dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi...