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...Elizabeth, N. J., Mrs. Mary E. Osborn, 82, was awarded a divorce after telling the court that her husband still insisted on knowing where and with whom she spent her time...
...Detroit Free Press lately observed: "It was said that when Goethe died he was the last of the human race to have grasped all human knowledge. That, however, was before Chase Osborn got around to being born." If Chase Osborn has not grasped all knowledge, he has certainly grasped...
...Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
Adding 39,960 sq. mi. to Michigan was only an incident in Mr. Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give...
...week the State of Michigan suddenly but soundlessly expanded-from 57,980 to 97,940 square miles. No cataclysm, no Blitzkrieg, not even litigation was the cause. The U. S. Bureau of the Census, which was already having trouble enough with its decennial count, simply capitulated to Chase Salmon Osborn...