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...LESTER MITCHELL Bridgeport, Conn...
With a large Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, it was not difficult for Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger of the U. S. Army to fly 2,400 miles. But they had to hit the comparatively minute Hawaiian Islands squarely on the head, or run a good chance of drowning in the Pacific...
...Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed to Reedy's Mirror many fine-sounding sonnets chanting...
...Ossian). Philip D. I's son was Jonathan Ogden, whose only child Lolita Ogden (Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr.) was cured of a childhood hip deformity by famed Orthopedist Dr. Adolf Lorenz (TIME, March 22. 1926) ; and Philip D. II (died 1900), whose children are Philip D. Ill and Lester...
...lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however he was, like another Cincinnatus called from his farm, in Chicago alongside his nephews Philip D. Ill and Lester in their tribulations with Armour Grain...