Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton, had long been pastor. Gypsy Smith has a son, Gypsy Jr., who is also saving souls...
...wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been absent a lot and- "I know more'n you do!" shouted Mrs. Youmans, catching her wind. "You don't know enough to teach the children good...
...winner, which had competed unsuccessfully on two previous occasions, is the property of Mrs. M. Partridge, 73, by the will of her son, killed in the War. It was his dying wish that Sprig might win a Grand National. Presented to the King after the race, Mrs. Partridge expressed tearful gratitude. "I have always thought," she said, "that the old horse would do it-some...
Married. Colonel James Taber Loree, 39, Vice President and General Manager of the Delaware & Hudson, son of Railroader President Leonor Fresnel Loree; to one Miriam G. Collins, in Brooklyn...
...master's degree at 17. She taught school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes her: "Well above medium height...