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...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...
Actually, the line of succession is not endangered by the carelessness of the Imperial Stork, for Hirohito has three brothers?Prince Yasuhito, 25; Prince Nobuhito, 22; Prince Takahito, 11. But nothing can alter the fact that the paramount duty of the Empress is to provide her royal lover with a bouncing baby Crown Prince. The joy of Japan would know no limit, if this happy event should occur...
Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan, a daughter (7 1/3 Ibs.); in a wooden hall outside the Akaska Palace, where are born all children of the immediate royal family of Japan...
...salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold an idea to an irate Irishwoman. She was the empress of a Philadelphia slum section he wanted badly to buy up for expansion of the Baldwin works. The lady had refused to sell and move out, and had wrathfully bade her neighbors do likewise. Mr. Vauclain put on an old straw hat, sauntered down her street and reclined in the sun opposite where she sat glowering...
Ruddy, jolly, pipe-smoking Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain, last week delivered his 'valedictory at Halifax, Nova Scotia, sailed on the S. S. Empress of Scotland for England and his official duties at Westminster. Said he, speaking also for Mrs. Baldwin, who accompanied...