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...kangaroo was scarcely more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering...
...Hotly debated a bill introduced by the Scottish temperance M. P., Edwin Scrynigeour, to prohibit commercial liquor sales in Britain and provide that liquor sold for medicinal use must be labeled "Poison...
Died. James Isaac Buchanan, 77, president of Pittsburgh Terminal Warehouse & Transfer Co. and River & R. R. Terminal Co., director of many a utility concern, onetime Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Scottish Rite, longtime member of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, holder of other Masonic offices; from a fall on an icy pavement; in Pittsburgh...
...Author. Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 28, is a Scottish-born descendant of Oliver Cromwell, married to a U. S. painter. She was "sent down" (expelled) from Somerville College, Oxford, for not working. She thinks men & women should go to separate universities.. With her husband and their two daughters, she lives in a Cotswold cottage near Stratford-on-Avon. A story-teller from infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think...
...critique of Scotland in general. Sir Harry Lauder in particular, was published last week by eminent Scottish Lawyer Andrew Dewar Gibbs, entitled Scotland in Eclipse...