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...Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave $500,000 to Sir James McGrigor in a futile effort to save his banking from failure, presumably because Sir James' father had paid the Baroness' father's passage to Canada when...
...Lords- ¶Voted down 125 to 80, Lord Astor's perennially revamped bill to seat peeresses in the House of Lords. Last year this measure was defeated by only two votes. Last week many a peeress, seated in the visitors' gallery, blushed, during debate upon the bill, at the ribald remarks of many a peer...