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Last week President Edgar Winfred Stark of Stark Bros. Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana. Mo.,* flourished the papers which gave him the first patent in the world on a fruit tree. It covers his Hal-Berta giant peach tree. The Hal-Berta, President Stark excitedly sets forth, "bears uniformly large, rosy-cheeked, delicious to eat, yellow-fleshed, freestone peaches, many of them weighing more than a pound, ripening a few days after the Hale-Elberta [peach] season when a truly high quality peach such as the Hal-Berta Giant will mean profit to the man who grows them and pleasure...
...They took the car and shotguns. When this car bogged down, the convicts became frenzied. They confiscated another passing car, commandeered two young women for shields. Warden White protested. They blew his arm almost off, left him for dead. Then they split up into two groups. One group- Charles Berta, Stanley Brown, Tom Underwood-ran into the woods where they were soon captured...
...human characters, tragic situations. The two daughters of a grim old grandee fall in love with the same man; he seduces the older before he marries the younger, and his two children grow up to fill his house with hate. Don Juan, lover of the childless widow Raquel, marries Berta to become a father, becomes instead the jealously guarded child of both women. A self-made man marries the daughter of an impoverished business acquaintance; she eventually falls in love with him, he will never admit that he loves her. But when she dies, he kills himself...
...eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this time the Penney dry goods chain had been started. It now includes more than 1,000 links. Several years ago Mr. Penney felt his education was sparse. He closed his office every afternoon for 18 months, studied with...
Fritz Reiner is the able conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. His wife, Berta Gardini-Gerster Reiner, is a vocal teacher, sometimes of Cincinnati, this season of Manhattan. And she is always the daughter of Etelka Gerster, famed Hungarian soprano. Last week in Manhattan, in memory of her mother who died in 1920, Madame Reiner gave a reception, presented her pupils in a special program...