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Poet John Howard Payne wrote the extra verses in 1829 as a personal tribute to the "exile" of the verses-Lucretia Augusta Sturgis Bates, wife of Joshua Bates, famed London banker (Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates...
...today is overindulgence in every line of endeavor . . . drunkenness swinging the pendulum to one apex while Prohibition carries it to the heights of the other. Temperance, therefore, should be the avenue we should travel in approaching this great and momentous problem. . . . Shall we have our Government act as a Lucretia Borgia of medieval days, who poisoned all who came into intimate contact with her? . . . I am in favor of taking the Government out of the business of poisoning its citizens...
WASHINGTON SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF -Lucretia Perry Osborn-Scribner's ($3.50). Provoked by the flood of so-called biographies of General Washington, Mr. Osborn has joined together the writings of the man himself to the end that Washington may tell his own story. These writings, which include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest...
Women told President Coolidge last week what he should do so that posterity might rank his name along with Lincoln's.. The deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting...
Married. Miss Lucretia Garfield, granddaughter of U. S. President James Abram Garfield, daughter of President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College; to one J. P. Comer, Assistant Professor...