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Four years ago, while underworldly Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle was away, the president of the Seattle City Council, Mrs. Bertha Knight Landes, wife of Dean Landes of the University of Washington and sister-in-law of President Emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, stepped in as acting mayor and "closed the town." The town had needed closing so badly that the Better Element was very pleased with Mrs. Landes. In 1926, it elected her Mayor of Seattle by a 5,000-vote majority...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
...BERTHA E. FELDENHEIMER Kansas City...
Last week Margarete Matzenauer was again the mother "dearer than Bertha" to her son the Prophet- this time Giovanni Martinelli, though Mme. Matzenauer has often been "dearer" to the late Enrico Caruso...
Both Prophet and Mother were superb in voice and gesture, last week, and their passions soared above Bertha ''Leonora Corona) with a spiritual fervor exceeding the carnal dynamics of Oedipus...