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First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
Born. To Glenna Collett Vare, five-lime national women's golf champion, and Edwin H. Vare Jr., nephew of Pennsylvania's Boss William Scott Vare; a daughter, Glenna; weight: 7 Ib.; on Mrs. Vare's 30th birthday: in Philadelphia...
After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand...
...Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank...
Nutritionists this year are stressing Vitamin A. Vitamin D?derived from cod or halibut liver oils, manufactured as viosterol, or developed in the body by natural or artificial sunlight?is essential for the utilization of bone building lime salts in the body. Vitamin A, however, now appears to be the body's best soldier against aisease. Best, appetizing sources of Vitamin A are butter, whole milk, egg yolk, edible green leaves (spinach, lettuce, celery leaves, beet tops), yellow corn, sweet potatoes, carrots...