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...Saving) in England, in France. April 20-Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26-Census Sunday in England. First census (1801) figures: 8,893,000. Last census (1921): 37,887,000. May 1-May Day, International Labor Day. May 1-Oct. 1-International Colonial & Overseas Exposition; at Vincennes. Business...
Reported Engaged. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, 51, onetime (1929-31) U. S. Representative from Illinois at large, relict of the late U. S. Senator Medill McCormick, who died in 1925; and Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime (1929-31) U. S. Representative from New Mexico at large; in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where she went to meet her 14-year-old son, Medill McCormick Jr. Said she: "It's screamingly funny. Both myself and Mr. Simms are getting a great kick...
Died. Mme Jean Leon Jaures, relict of Jean Jaures, French Socialist Deputy who was assassinated in Paris in 1914; in Paris...
...Demarest, N. J. Mrs. Claire Polk, elderly relict of Nathaniel Polk, who was reputed to be a grandson of President James Knox Polk (1795-1849), had lived alone in one tightly shut room of her large house ever since her husband's death in 1889. She did her own work, spoke to no one but the village postmistress, one Ann Huess. Last week Ann Huess missed her, got police to break into the house. Mrs. Claire Polk sat by her fireside, warmed by a flickering gas log. She had been dead a week, of carbon monoxide poisoning...
...poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto; if not, World Without End may make your teeth a little edgy...