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Last autumn, before moving his 18 children, 13 grandchildren and divers in-laws from their drought-blighted farmstead in North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel...
White-haired but exuberant and bouncing Ella Reeve Bloor, 75. "Mother" of U. S. Communism returned last fortnight from three months in the Soviet Union. Now the No. i female member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party, with a record of twelve grandchildren and 36 arrests. Mother Bloor last week gave her impressions of Communism in Russia...
...this troubled world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week had nothing on his mind except preparing 1) a message to Congress on the State of the Union, 2) another on the Budget and 3) a speech for his Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives, he an- nounced that...
...Paris, 44 years ago, Baker Paul Cimetiere sued for divorce, was refused on the grounds of insufficient brutality. Twice afterward he sued with the same result. Meantime, he and Mrne Leonie Veynes had four children. When the fiancee of one of his grandchildren threatened to break her engagement unless her future grandfather was regularized. Grandfather Cimetiere, now 77, sued again, again lost...
...Seattle he lingered two nights and a day at the unpretentious house of his son-in-law, John Boettiger, publisher of William Randolph Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, played with his grandchildren Curtis and Eleanor Dall, and their Irish setters, Jack and Jill. Next day, his seven-league footsteps began again...