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...Attorney General of Tennessee: the U. S. Checkers championship; at Jamestown, N. Y. The tournament, in which 24 district champions entered, was played in rounds of four games each. Spectators were not permitted to speak. The rattle of notes being passed disturbed Checkerist Hunt. For the playoff, he and Nathaniel Rubin of Los Angeles retired to an upstairs bedroom in the Jamestown Hotel, played a round which lasted three days, contained eleven draws, one victory for Hunt...
Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...
Died. Julian Hawthorne, 88, author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost...
...Batchelder, John Bigelow, Charles A. Coolidge, Mclville T. Copeland, R. H. Currier, Paul Dudley Dean, John H. Dorsey, William P. Elwell, Erland F. Fish, R. E. Forbes, James Ford, Frederick L. Good, Arthur N. Holcombe, B. J. Kathrewehre, Chester H. J. Keppler, Charles G. Mixter, James B. Munn, Nathaniel Nash, Daniel Needham, George E. Norton, John A. Paine, T. B. Pitman, Robert Soutter, Malcolm B. Stone, Max Talbot, Sidney M. Williams, Hubert E. Winlock, Paul C. Wolfe, and Miss Anne T. Eristoff...
...Elephant charge will be made by; cox James M. Estabrook '34; stroke, Lewis '35; 6, Richard G. Ames '34; 5, John J. Lowry '35; 4. Robert S. Hurlbut '34; 3, William Van A. Hansen '34; 2, Nathaniel T. Winthrop '34; bow, Richard K. Thorndiko...