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...hamlets of Athens, Tenn., and Gilmer, West Va., got into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...Athens, Tenn., the spider-finder was one Lee Moses. More venturesome or perhaps more literate than the Gilmer spider, the Athenian spider had written "Smith-8-Y." Spiderman Moses* interpreted this to mean, "Smith, eight years" and placed his bets accordingly...
Tulane University (New Orleans) Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (Dorothy Dix), colyumist...
...Author. Dorothy Dix, of course, is not her name. Fifty-six years ago, in Montgomery County, Tenn., she was christened Elizabeth Meriwether. She knew love early; married one George O. Gilmer at the romantic age of 18. Misfortune smote her. Now she says in her philosophy of life: "/ am not afraid of poverty. ... I have earned my bread and butter for many years." At 26 she found herself editing the women's department of the New Orleans Picayune (now the Times-Picayune). Her printed words were bathed in the milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice...
Heavyweight class E. H. Bradford Jr. defeated C. L. Gilmer 3L in one round by a technical knockout...