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Reporting this phenomenon last week, the city registrar of records also noted that the city death rate was 10.5 per 1,000, and commented: "If conditions continue we shall probably reach a point where the two rates will balance." That point, said New York State's Vital Statistician Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Demographic Equinox | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: God & Baby | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Next day Mrs. Spencer indulged in a spectacular reversal of form. Hurrying to La Porte to try to annul the marriage, Mrs. Spencer announced that she now thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: God & Baby | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Indiana: city water main extension in Decatur; demolition of school building in La Porte County; construction of artificial lake in St. Bernice; construction of city athletic field in Mishawaka; construction of various low log dams in Morgan County; ditch repairing in Miami County; city library book repairs in Terre Haute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Headlines & Deadlines | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

In Missoula, Mont, last week William Gene La Porte, week-old son of a dentist and a registered nurse, developed two perfect lower teeth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Teeth | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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