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Married. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 25, "most eligible bachelor in the U. S.." owner of Sagamore Farm and famed handicap horse Discovery, co-heir with his brother George to the $20,000,000 fortune of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; to Manuela ("Molly") 'Hudson, 26. California cousin-by-marriage of Charles S. Howard, owner of Seabiscuit; in Sands Point, L. I. Reported the New York World-Telegram: "Some cried, but Mrs. Margaret Emerson, Mr. Vanderbilt's mother, who has been married four times, was cheerful...
Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks...
...charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...
Louisville's modest Chancery Judge James Garnett has legal power to interpret men's minds. Last week he had to decide about the last testament of Louisville's late Civil Engineer Charles K. Needham. Needham, a sentimental bachelor who died ten years ago at 80, once read Jean Jacques Rousseau's novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished...
...000th Daimler-Benz car, a portrait of the late General Erich Ludendorff and numerous cradles, baby carriages, and babies' clothes "from the provinces"-i. e., from provincial families still unaware that the man who so often appeals to German mothers for more and better children is a bachelor...