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...from the recently concluded U. S. Civil War but from Canada's provincial confederation which occurred that year. Eighteen years later Publisher Stovel moved with his four sons, all printers, to Winnipeg. Fourteen years later Western Home Monthly came to life. Father Stovel and sons Harry, John and Augustus died, but the business is still run by Chester David...
...garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they too were hit by the economy drive of energetic young Joseph ("Holy Joe'') McKee, the city's new Mayor (TIME...
...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...
...privacy "to permit our children to lead the lives of normal Americans." The Press gratefully accepted the notice, put rewrite men to work in various characteristic fashions: United Press: "Englewood, N. J.-A new mite of humanity . . . slept tonight in the nursery of the kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. ... In an adjoining room, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, rested from the ordeal of motherhood, listened delightedly to the shrill wails of the new arrival. . . ." Universal: ". . . He came at 7:30 o'clock in the white nursery of the Morrow home at Englewood. . . ." Chicago Tribune: ". . . The estate was quiet except...
Born. To Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh; a son; at the home of Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, in Englewood, N. J., where two years and two months ago her first baby, Charles Augustus Jr. was born and whither she retired after his death by kidnapping five months ago. Born. To Princess Ileana of Rumania, sister of King Carol; and Archduke Anton of Habsburg; a son; in Vienna. Name: Stephan. Married. Walter Joseph Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith; and one Florence Elizabeth Watson, 22, of Schenectady, N. Y.; in Schenectady. Married. Charles Sumner Fess...