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Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
...lectures, to which admission is free but by ticket only, have been given annually at Huntington Hall, in the Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, Boston. The five Harvard professors to lecture are E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, F. N. Robinson '09, professor of English, L. M. S. Miner, dean of the Dental School and professor of Clinical Oral Surgery, C. M. Campbell, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, and Elton Mayo, professor or Industrial Research...
...titles and dates of the lectures by Professor Mayo, Miner, and Campbell will be announced within the next week...
Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
...southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although they lived in hot, stuffy barracks, went out into blustery cold every morning, picked coal at temperatures below freezing and returned tired each evening to their steaming quarters. Their healthiness suggested that drafts, bad weather, or freezing have nothing per se to do with common colds...