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Hollis--Lillian Russell in "The Widow's Mite...
...must look higher than to Schneider-Creusot for the final answer. For far overtopping Schneider-Creusot and its subsidiaries stands that great organization of iron and steel manufactures the co mite des Forges de France...
...exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news of the current Civil War, a grudging eight...
Meanwhile on Dec. 15 minute Finland was again the only European state to pay in full, her mite being $229.623. Again Britain chipped in the largest token...
Adequate though small is Engelbert Dollfuss. Last week the mite of a Chancellor (4 ft. 11 in.) who holds the balance between Austria's raging Nazis and scarcely less irate Socialists, decided that what he needed was a whopping gallows. Not since 1920, when the death penalty was abolished, has there been such a thing in Austria. Engelbert Dollfuss called carpenters. With a mighty thwacking they built in the gloomy courtyard of Vienna's district jail a monster gallows "adequately tall," said to be the biggest ever reared in Austria...