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Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
Celebrating his 97th birthday, Col. Sir Fitzroy Maclean, chief of Clan Maclean, received at his home on the Isle of Mull a telegram of greeting from the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, Thus ended a feud which began 187 years ago when a Maclean chief suspected his wife of peccadillos with a Campbell...
Queen Victoria once advised Cosmo Gordon Lang, long before he became Archbishop of York, to marry. He answered: "If I have a curate who is unsatisfactory, I can dispose of him, but a wife is another matter." Last week Victoria's grandson named the wit to be the 97th Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith...
...gold chains, diamond chains, bracelets, antique combs. When her maid Anna Bernhardt, aged 23, last week gave notice, Mrs. Harrison became suspicious. She called in the police. Detectives Gallagher and Murtha strolled over from the East 104th Police Station (her apartment is at 1160 Fifth Ave., the corner of 97th St.). They searched the maid's room and found the missing articles. In court Miss Bernhardt wept on her mistress' shoulder, asked for a chance to prove that she was innocent. Mrs. Harrison relented and asked Magistrate McKiniry not to send the girl to jail. He said he was sorry...
...Hamba," shouted one and "Hamba," cried another-which being translated from the Russsian means "Shame." A foreign mob pressed in from the East one rainy day last week, tossed cattlewise upon 97th St., Manhattan, sprawled upon the upper calm of Fifth Avenue by the Park. "Hamba. Hamba...