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...noticed in your issue of April 18 under Miscellany that the world's smallest baby is a Kansas City boy weighing i Ib. . . . I enclose a clipping from a local newspaper, showing a picture of THE WORLD'S SMALLEST BABY, a Miss Mercer, of Wards' Station, Columbus County, N. C., who tips the scales at a mere half-pound...
Small Babe Mercer, 6 in. long, weighed 12 oz. at birth. Three weeks old and weighing 8 oz., she was thriving last week in Chadbourn, N. C. on two medicine droppers of milk every two hours. A finger ring would fit her wrist...
...tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected of the crime and the only witness who might help her, an ex-soldier, is so paralyzed by the spectacle of murder that...
...stronger appeal over their own signatures through the Press: We promise that we will keep whatever arrangements that may be made . . . strictly confidential and we further pledge ourselves that we will not try to injure in any way those connected with the return of the child. The prosecutor of Mercer County, in which lies a part of the Lindbergh lands, agreed to give the criminals immunity. It was then found that the nursery, where the crime was committed, was in Hunterdon County, whose law officers issued no promises...
Married. Mary Margaret Elizabeth Mercer-Nairne, 21, step-daughter of Major John Jacob Astor (publisher of the London Times); and a Captain R. Myddelton of the Coldstream Guards; in Hever, England...