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...Abner Doubleday was a general in the Civil War. The world will probably little note nor long remember what he did at Gettysburg* but it can never forget what he did at Cooperstown. In that sleepy little New York village 99 years ago, he invented baseball...
...freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this...
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...cold and we were far from any station, it did seem. Whereupon we did seek information at the nearest house: Wherein, after much knocking and waiting, a nice old lady in pink night gown did come and ask us "Dear Ones" into the parlor: "Abner will be right down". "Abner", coat over night shirt, did come almost immediately. I did feel most funny when he did ask me for my "license". He, I found, being hard of hearing, I did have an exceedingly difficult time explaining it was not marriage we did want but the nearest gas station. Whereupon...
Engaged. Rosemary Ames, 27, film actress, daughter of the late Chicago Publisher Knowlton Lyman ("Snake'') Ames; and Abner J. Stilwell, vice president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. Both have been married before, Miss Ames to 1) E. Ogden Ketting, onetime confidential secretary to Samuel Insull, and 2) Bertie Alexander Meyer, London theatrical producer...