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...married Elinor C. McClements of Chicago, who before her death in 1917 gave him one daughter, Genevieve Arlisle (wife of Capt. Emmet C. Gudger, U. S. N.). When Walsh and wife migrated West, he sought clients among the freeland settlers, first in Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena, Mont., where he established a reputation handling suits against mining companies. In 1906 he was defeated for the House of Representatives, but his law fame grew. With Montana's onetime Attorney General, he formed the locally potent firm of Walsh. Nolan & Scallon...
Eight new singers have been engaged: Soprano Beatrice Belkin of Lawrence, Kan., member of "Roxy's Gang" (Manhattan cinema troupe), the St. Louis Municipal and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Grand Opera Companies; Soprano Myrna Sharlow of Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung...
...Churchman, liberal Episcopalian weekly, wrote its Yankton, S. Dak., correspondent last week to eulogize the late, romanticized Deadwood Dick, currently revived for the U. S. masses by William Randolph Hearst's New York American (TIME, May 19, June...
Buried. Lieut. Carl Ben Eielson, famed polar flyer; during a snowstorm at Hatton, N. Dak. His body had been brought back from Cape North, Siberia, where he crashed in a blizzard flying to aid an ice-locked furship (TIME, Jan. 6 et. seq.). Two days late for the burial, an airplane from the stormy East brought Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Eielson's comrade on many a frigid flight, to lay a wreath, gaze at the white grave, fly away...
...reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder...