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...state relief for large families, a Senator uprose to read a telegram just received announcing the birth of seven children, all boys, all living, to Carola and Luis Perez of San Pedro. Some U.S. newsreaders would have been more impressed if they had not just scanned Dr. Palmer Findley's The Story of Childbirth, published last fortnight.* Therein appears a picture of the medieval Italian, Dorothea, her monstrous abdomen supported by a neck-swung hoop, who gave birth to nine babies in her first pregnancy, eleven in her second. Dr. Palmer Findley, 65, is professor of obstetrics and gynecology...
...Governor wasted no time. By night he had ordered 1,800 national guardsmen mobilized under Brigadier General Park Findley. "The law will be enforced. I mean business," said...
Next day the militia detrained at Tipton, marched through crowds of hostile farmers to the Cedar County fair grounds, where it encamped. General Findley sent his men throughout the county posting Governor Turner's proclamation of martial law. Guarded by the militia, veterinarians returned to Farmer Lenker's place determined to test his cattle. When they arrived the cattle were gone. Farmer Lenker had sold them rather than submit to the testing. He was arrested. On other farms, machine guns were set up while the veterinarians did their work. The revolt collapsed into a campaign of "passive resistance...
...Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser to Salvador-and two daughters. He edited the Papillion (Xeb.) Times. In 1891 he was already full of Democratic sentiments: William Jennings Bryan made him his secretary, took him to Washington (paying his expenses, but no salary). This position lasted...
...GREEN FOREST?Nathalie Sedgwick Colby?Harcourt Brace ($2). The "green forest" herein is a world of the spirit which Shirley Challoner entered one day at a concert with David Findley, a young doctor. Between them sat Shirley's husband, heavy and lit eral. Shirley and David could not have each other then because Shirley was going to have a baby. Years later, at the time of this story, Franklin Challoner is buried but his daughter keeps David and Shirley apart again. She drags Shirley to Europe in pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement...