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Last week Brother Daniel Nelson said he was about to settle with the bandits for $10,000 Mex. ($3,000) "less a sum to be expended for gramophone records, chess boards, wrist watches, ammunition, fresh fruit, fountain pens, tennis rackets & balls, basketballs, footballs and other articles...
...reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed to awaken to melodious chimes, bathe in water from an illuminated fountain, travel with a body-guard). Like many another rich Southern woman, Mrs. Duke is conservative, quiet, charming. Her fellow trustees regard her as a fine figure of a woman, find her (unlike the Southern woman of tradition) able and efficient in business. She seldom goes to their Carolina meetings but always...
...executed, a feat which he announces after consulting his pocket almanac. The Yankee organizes factories in which modern appliances are turned out for the use of medieval people and sends the knights out riding with sandwich boards slung over their armor advertising corn cure, liver pills. fountain pens...
...press the world over scrupulously noted with many appropriate comments that I used a fountain pen to sign the treaty. One Paris newspaper published a rather poor caricature with the malicious but witty inscription, 'The Huns' Last Trick-Hermann Müller Signs in Invisible...
Died. Willard I. Grimmer, 27, quartermaster of the submarine Nautilus in which Sir Hubert Wilkins plans to cruise under the ice across Earth's north polar cap this summer (TIME, March 23); after falling overboard as the Nautilus was entering New York harbor. W7hen Quartermaster Grimmer married one Mary Fountain three weeks ago in Philadelphia, he said: "The Nautilus has brought me luck in the last month; a chance to meet my wife and a chance to take one of the greatest trips ever planned...