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Born at Ukiah, Calif, in the northern redwood country, William Standley was the son of a sheriff-rancher. In 1890 he read an advertisement for competitive examinations to Annapolis. He frankly admits that he took the tests "just for an excuse to go to Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy...
...with many a tall tale to tell of the Inaugural. Son Elliott chucked his New York advertising job because too many clients counted on his "Washington pull." At his first press conference the President kissed Elliott good-by as he started to motor to Arizona and look for a rancher's job. Son James who got a new position with Travelers Insurance Co. stayed on temporarily at the White House. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt held a press conference of her own in the Red Room, met the wives of new Representatives and Senators at the Congressional Club...
...coroner reconstructed the horrid hour. An apoplectic stroke had felled Rancher Byram. As he lay unconscious, his hogs came...
...Near Los Angeles Mrs. Edna Porter Killian, 35, clubwoman, murdered her rancher husband Howard, killed herself because she was worried over finances. The Killians, both graduates of the University of California, were prominent among the landed gentry around El Monte...
Married. Frederick George Moore Perceval, nth Earl of Egmont, 18, Canadian rancher; and one Ann Geraldine Moodie of Calgary; in Calgary, Alberta...