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Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
...calls his "other state" the New York executive beat a proxy candidate for Speaker Garner better than 7-to-1. Warm Springs where he goes several times a year to bathe his crippled legs gave Candidate Roosevelt all but one of its 219 votes. The voters of Roswell in Cobb County, whence came Martha Bullock, mother of the late great Theodore Roosevelt, gave every one of their ballots to T. R.'s fifth cousin...
...Carlisle, close to National City Bank, holds the chair of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York while Banker John Edward Aldred has that position in Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore. Samuel Insull is chairman of Middle West Utilities and his brother Martin president. Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern is an operating man but he has spent many years in a Wall Street house...
...piece of detective work, carried along the deductive methods used by the great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious...
Mile run Won by J. P. Scheu (Blue); second, Matthew Cobb (Blue); third, C. F. Weedard...