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Saddest and strangest sight of the week was a hunger marchers' Women's Brigade whose cheer leader, Mrs. Harriet Paisley, is a 62-year-old Lancashire grandmother. Clattering along on thick-soled Lancashire clogs, these hard-faced women grimly entered and marched about London solemnly blowing rubber razzberries at well-dressed citizens, bobbies and Royal Horse Guards...
...Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser to Salvador-and two daughters. He edited the Papillion (Xeb.) Times. In 1891 he was already full of Democratic sentiments: William Jennings Bryan made him his secretary, took...
...British Treasury collected a death duty (inheritance tax) of $5,620,000 last week on the estate of $13,985,000 left by Major Andrew Coats, of the famed Paisley thread-spinning family...
...Author. Not only is Gallows' Orchard Author Claire Spencer's first novel, it is her first published work of any kind. A Scotch girl from Paisley (where the great Paisley shawls were made), she came to the U. S. 12 years ago, aged 19. An art student, Author Spencer paints "strange and surprising landscapes, which are the admiration of her friends," designed the jacket for her own book. She knows more artists than writers, reads few modern writers, has never read Thomas Hardy, to whose Tess of the D'Urbervilles her book has been compared...
Rain fell all night. While weeping parents tiptoed through three wards of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, a temporary morgue, trying to identify their children, members of the Town Council met privately, voted $5,000 for a public funeral, started an investigation. At midnight a group of Paisley citizens gathered in the main square, softly sang "Auld Lang Syne...