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...darling of British dowagers last week, because he had set an example to King Edward and become engaged to the right sort of girl, was England's Most Eligible Bachelor No. 2, the Duke of Norfolk. As Burke's Peerage says, "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England." Last week 28-year old Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Premier Duke, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, momentarily put out of mind his beauteous and horsy fiancee, the Hon. Lavinia...
Engaged. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, England's premier duke and earl, 28; and the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 21, daughter of the 3rd Baron Belper...
Lehigh Valley, Norfolk & Western, Central of New Jersey are among other roads that have switchbacks...
Died. Arthur Chase Needles, 69, since 1924 president of Norfolk & Western Railway; of bronchial asthma; in Roanoke...
Pulling at their old-and-mild in the local pub last week, Norfolk yokels guffawed with native pride as they read in London's Sunday Referee all about their 103-year-old pal George Skeet, "Britain's most wonderful father." A lad of 25 in 1858, George took a wife, who bore him two sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took...