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Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...
...Phillips, for example, barely mentions the cruise of Nathaniel Silsbee in the Benjamin. Silsbee was her captain at 19, with a crew of boys. The cargo cost $18,000. They sold it at the Isle of France (Mauritius), converted the profit to gold, and made about $54,000 in six months, because of the inflation of the currency during an embargo. They sent perhaps $25,000 to Salem (to pay for their ship and cargo), bought $30,000 worth of wine at the Cape of Good Hope, sold it at the Isle of France for about $90,000, and returned...
Other books published during the week include: "The Making of the Constitution," by Charles Warren; "Production in the United States, 1860-1914," by Edwin Frickey, professor of Economics; "Nathaniel Hawthorne and European Tradition," by Jand Lundblad; and "Russian Radicals Look to America 1825-1894," by David Hecht...
...diffused through out the South and the nation in letters, on the bench, in the cloth, in medicine, the army and navy, and most famously in public office. Admiral William F. Halsey and Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., belong to the same alumni association which nominally includes Pee and one Nathaniel R. Clanton of Augusta, Ga., black sheep of his class, who was killed on the barri cades of the Paris Commune...
...Harmattan wind from the Sahara Desert, whose parching breath cracks furniture and leaves books curled up. Some 15,000 freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...