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Charles, younger son of a conservative English parson, fell in love with the German governess, Hedwig. When his father tried to break up the affair they eloped, were caught and brought back before the marriage was legalized. Hedwig, sent home to her mother in Germany, was married off to an army officer in time to give her baby a name. Innocent Charles never even suspected he was a father. Then the War came. John, the elder brother, was an officer in France. One of his jobs was catching and condemning a German spy, who turned out to be Hedwig...
...Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...
...graphic picture of the parliamentary proceedings of both of Germany's extreme parties in action. Chancellor Brüning was not unduly alarmed. Next day was Corpus Christi. He marched in the religious procession (first in Berlin since the War) to the Cathedral of St. Hedwig. Strengthened by this, he buttonholed President von Hindenburg for four hours and 45 minutes three days later, tried to persuade his old patron not to admit the Fascists to a share in the Government until after the Lausanne conference in June. Meanwhile, the Chancellor planned a new legislative program to break...
First he worked under Professor Leopold Lichtwitz in the State Hospital at Altona, later under Professor Alexander von Lichtenberg at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin. To Altona, Professor Arthur H. Binz, organic chemist, sent an iodine compound which he wanted Professor Lichtwitz to use on cows infected with streptococci. The compound was N-methyl-5-iodo-z-pyridon. Dr. Swick, inquisitive, knew about all the scientific work going on at Altona. With a retentive memory, he knew that Dr. Leonard George Rowntree of the Mayo Clinic in 1923 had illuminated the kidneys & ureters faintly with sodium iodide. The iodine created...
Last year a Miss Hedwig Hirsch of Philadelphia married an elderly little gentleman named Frederick Brinkmann, superintendent of an electrical company in Trenton, N. J. Fortnight ago Frederick Brinkmann lost his job, fled from his home. He was arrested in New York, taken to Philadelphia, charged with desertion and failure to support. Wearily, the prisoner confessed that he had a wife and two children in the West. The charge was changed to bigamy. Later he confessed further, said he was missing Banker Paul Wupper. To Sheriff M. L. Enders of Lincoln he sent a wire to come...