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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris last week when Captain Gordon Canning, official representative of Abd-el-Krim, arrived to initiate pourparlers for peace between the Riff and France (see CABINET NOTES). While Captain Canning dickered behind closed doors with M. Ponsot, the French Undersecretary for African affairs, pressmen drew from other English-born officers of the Riffian delegation many picturesque details anent the Riff...
...13th of 15 children born to a Scotch-English farmer of Lancaster, Mass. Crossed in love in his twenties, he turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting...
Died. Henry Miller, 66, famed U.S. London-born actor, producer, theatre owner, director and occasional playwright; in Manhattan of pneumonia...
...Born. To Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan, and Mrs. Martinelli, a daughter, Giovanna (8½ lb.). Her sister Bettina, 10, and brother Antonio, 8, were also born in the U.S. Signor Martinelli, jubilant, banqueted friends...
...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...