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Queen Mary rented a safety deposit box fortnight ago. Apprised in advance of Her Majesty's intention, London's Chubb & Sons' Lock & Safe Co., Ltd. had prepared a gold key to the royal box. which Chairman Lord Hayter presented with a profound...
Banker John Pierpont Morgan added to his Glen Cove (L. I.) estate by buying for $650,000 "Rattling Springs," the 65-acre estate of the late Percy Chubb, which adjoins that of his son. Junius. "Rattling Springs" includes a pond which Mr. Morgan may convert into a yacht basin...
...Prohibition nearly ruined him; for the first time in history the Brittons could not afford to winter in Manhattan. "Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Britton and daughter Ellen, will spend this winter in their house on Riggs Island." Schoolma'am Ada Whitehouse had set her unmodish cap at young Warren Chubb but Chubb was trying to hitch his wagon to Rae Britton. So, although Ellen Britton deserved the prize, that was why "Florence Widgell won the Sixth Grade Oratorical Contest in our School House Tuesday. A sterling silver medal was presented. Good work, Florence...
...Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed to Reedy's Mirror many fine-sounding sonnets chanting the praises of William Jennings Bryan, the Anti-Saloon League and Mary Garden. When critics took the Spoon River Anthology (1915) seriously, Poet Masters began to take himself so; to write with purpose about "the American small town in general...
Election day is far off. Not even the Hot-Stove League at Chubb's Corners has begun to determine the country's next political potluck. Yet this man doggedly continues his long-range prophesy...