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Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
...Thomas O. Marvin, wife of the U. S. Tariff Commissioner, told last week how, upon entering a Boston antique shop, she found $3,000 worth of bric-a-brac which had been stolen early in June from the Marvin summer home near Portsmouth...
...accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass of brandy. Helen Wills last week was simply the best woman tennis player at Wimbledon and she won. She played, in all, twelve sets of singles, losing none, dropping only 16 games...
...unlike a small boy was Publisher McCormick when, having been "sold" the 'Untin' Bowler stunt, he found he could not obtain the services of Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced arctic air navigator alive (Wilkins expeditions). Pilot Eielson, engaged by Aviation Corp., was about to depart for Alaska when Mr. McCormick telephoned to Manhattan from Chicago to persuade, demand, then storm because he could not have...
...miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...