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Sarah Althea Hill was born in frontier Cape Girardeau, Mo. in 1848, the year Louis Philippe lost his throne and General Zachary Taylor won the U. S. Presidency. Orphaned at 6, she was reared by a grandfather, migrated at 23 with her gold-seeking brother to California. Statuesque and golden-haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love...
David Terry stood 6 ft. 3 in., weighed 220 lb., had a temper to match. Kentucky-born in 1823, he drifted down to Stephen Austin's colony in Mexican Texas, enlisted in the war for Lone Star independence at 13. Later he practiced law in Houston, and Galveston, fought with the Texas Rangers against Mexico, rushed to California in '49, set up a law office in Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited...
...Born. To Crown Prince Olav of Norway, 33; and Crown Princess Martha, 35; their first son, third child; in Oslo...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 21, daughter of Cali fornia's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson; from Rafael Lopez de Onate, 40, Philippine-born cinemactor with whom she eloped in 1934; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport...
...Humberd is the coroner of Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants...