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Root of the Family Tree. In Coati-cook, Quebec, death came to 103-year-old Hubert Leclerc, who left 375 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
...company has had much experience in mounting mementos: it has framed bridal veils, ashes of the dead, love letters, canceled checks aggregating several billions of dollars. Biggest one: $146,000,000. An elderly businessman once brought in a baby dress his mother made him, had it framed for great-grandchildren. Lately a soldier came into the shop looking for a picture of General MacArthur, and met his long-lost brother, a sailor, who was having his marriage certificate framed...
Threatening legal action if Mrs. Patrick Campbell's executors publish his 125 love letters to the late, great actress before he dies, whiskery old George Bernard Shaw pshawed: "Forty-five years ago, everybody wrote love letters to Mrs. Campbell. I know she thought mine the best of the bunch, though personally I thought those of Burne-Jones more interesting. . . . Before the copyright expires they will, I hope, provide for the education of Mrs. Campbell's great-grandchildren, but they must wait till the old gentlemen who wrote them can no longer make them ridiculous by their white hairs...
Frederick Snare is 77, has five great-grandchildren. John H. Allen is 83. Findlay S. Douglas was already voting when he won the U. S. Amateur golf championship in 1898. Frank T. Heffelfinger, cousin of Yale's Immortal Pudge Heffelfinger, was born before the Franco-Prussian...
...doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing her fortune, fixing up the grandchildren when they get into those readily-soluble jams that are so common in novels, looking after the great-grandchildren, endowing cancer research and writing a book. Gregrannie takes her meals with the fam ily, makes wisecracks with her offspring, reads French and H. G. Wells's The Out line of History and recalls vividly the death of her mother in 1839, her work as a nurse...