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...warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome...
Gulping mail clerks at Southampton, England, last month reported a "$500,000 mail robbery" from sacks ferried abroad in the Leviathan. The ship was detained at Southampton during a long investigation. Not until last week did she get back to Manhattan. By that time the Leviathan robbery had shriveled to some $10,000 worth of valuables actually removed from some 1,300 registered letters. The thieving had apparently been done after the Leviathan docked at Southampton. Suspicion attached to a British member of the crew...
Died. Capt. Sir James T. W. Charles, 62, famed commodore of the Cunard fleet; in Southampton, England, just after he had taken the Aquitania across the Atlantic; of an internal hemorrhage. He had intended to retire after this voyage of the Aquitania and 48 years...
Such was a recent headline, typical of hundreds which appeared throughout the world when the flagship of the U. S. Lines last docked at Southampton, England...
...trade" (in business). Modest yet inflexible, he last week retired as a commoner entitled to a pension of £4,000 ($19,440) a year, having risen from the nonentity of a poor cotton spinner. His successor is Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, son of Baron Southampton, one-time Page of Honor to Queen Victoria, but now called "Mr. Speaker" and ranking as "First Commoner of the Realm...