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Lydia Southard had a way with men She married Robert Dooley and he died. She married William Gordon McHavie and he died. She married Harlan C. Lewis and he died. She married Edward M. Meyer and he died.* After each death she collected a big lump of insurance. She was on her fifth honeymoon when she was arrested, put on trial for murder at Twin Falls, Idaho, in 1921. The State attempted to show that she was a chronic husband poisoner, did prove that she killed Meyer with a deadly fly mixture. Mrs. Southard, then 29, was sent...
Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...
Despairing then, he hurries towards the exit portal of the sanctuary. And the last thing that greets his departing eye, at the end of the nave, is a telephone booth, designed as a fourteenth-century confessional. William Harlan Hale in The Nation
Five years ago the U. S. lawyer and one-time Interstate Commerce Commissioner, James S. Harlan, saw a camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed...
...Vermont were not) has given the U. S. many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...