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Counterbalancing, is a belief, cherished by some branches of the Hoover family that Andrew Hoover, Maryland Quaker, progenitor of the family in the U. S. and the Nominee's great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1740 or before, not from Holland as some have said but direct from Germany. He signed his name Andreas Huber at first. He spoke "high" German. He is thought to have become a Quaker after his arrival...
...single period of 24 hours was celebrated by Italians, last week, as War Declaration? Day, Colonial Day, and the Fourth Centenary of the birth of Duke Emanuele Filberto of Savoy, doughty progenitor of bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele...
...might imply, a noisy melodrama of ginthetic sin. Rather, it is a quiet and delicious little comedy about the descendants of a Kentucky distiller who have inherited his plant but who are unable to profit thereby because of the exigencies of the Volstead law and the severities of their progenitor's robust and thrifty widow. At last, after selling her their shares in the enterprise so that she may continue her proud traffic in bootleg, they go away from the old distillery on various romantic errands. Bottled was written by Anne Collins and Alice Timoney, sisters, southerners, journalists...
More exciting than to listen was to reflect upon the legend that the new little Earl is a descendant of "Little Jack Horner" on his mother's side. She was Miss Katharine Horner, and her paternal progenitor was that James ("Jack") Horner who was Steward to the rich Abbot of Glastonbury in the days of Henry VIII...
...found exhibits of tickets, travel-folders, timetables, trunks, baggage, Pullman cai's, Pullman-car china, antique wooden rails, tiny reproductions of modern electric engines; collections of new and old railroad watches, telegraph instruments, telephones, canal boats, pictures of locomotives. Also a rickety-looking rod, the predecessor and progenitor of telegraph poles...