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...Whitwell Elwin was no ordinary Victorian clergyman. He was rich enough to demolish his parish church and build a new one, bold enough to design the blueprint himself. When Elwin's parishioners fell ill, "his Rev" (as he was called) was their doctor; when his wife had children, he acted as midwife. He had amiable eccentricities, such as cutting the Communion bread "into small squares, some for the communicants and some for his canaries." But the favorite hobby of this self-assured, broadminded parson was corresponding with growing girls, listening to their troubles and helping them with affectionate advice...
Emily Lytton, daughter of Lord Robert Lytton, British Ambassador to France, and granddaughter of Author Bulwer-Lytton, became one of Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...
...only one man, Elwin Wyman, has field his petition for the presidency of the HUERA, and is expected to win the election unopposed on February 10. As president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, he will represent all janitors and maids in disputes with the University...
...answered 21 charges of car-stealing and shop-breaking: "I didn't want to steal cars, but I didn't have no transportation to get out in the country and rob stores at night, so I had to steal cars fo get to my jobs." In Elwin, 111., a gang of men in three automobiles and a truck pulled up to an appliance store, spent two hours looting the place, politely told the manager's wife before making off with her jewelry and $3,500 in cash and assorted appliances: "We have to do this. This...
...Louis, Brooklyn Dodger Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe wondered whether he should have invited his father, Dr. Charles E. Roe, to come up from Viola, Ark. to watch him work. The Preacher went to the showers after six innings against the Cardinals, and father Roe went home minus $80 lifted by a ballpark pickpocket...