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Negaunee, Mich.; Emporia, Kan.; Pal myra, N. Y. ; Houston, Ark.; Commerce, Mo.; Pewee Valley, Ky. ; Waxahachie and Jacksonville, Tex.; Belfast, Me.; Oelwein, Iowa; Virginia Beach, Va., were other places whence the new Carnegie heroes hailed. Besides Hero Smith's silver medal, 23 bronze medals were awarded, ten of them posthumously, for rescue or attempts at rescue from drowning, burning and onrushing trains. Hero Bert V. McMinn of Jacksonville, Tex., extracted his man from a caved-in well...
...North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...
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Married. Miss Mary MacLennan, daughter of Frank P. MacLennan, editor & publisher of the Topeka State-Journal; to one James A. Farrell* of New York; in Topeka, Kan. In 1897 Editor MacLennan installed a new press on which was inscribed "Mary" in gold letters. On Oct. 29, 1927, the first press was succeeded by "Mary the Third." Said the State-Journal: "So it's good-bye to 'Mary the First,' and 'how do you do' to 'Mary the Third...
Harry F. Sinclair? once a druggist's lazy son in Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...