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Born. To John F. A. Cecil and Mrs. Cecil (Cornelia Vanderbilt), a son, George Henry Vanderbilt (eight and one-half pounds); in Asheville, N. C. Children of tenants of Biltmore House (Mrs. Cecil's estate) gathered in English fashion to greet the hear, presented him with a toy stork, a woolly...
...another place, an antelope grazed, a zebra pranced. These quadrupeds were hardly disturbed by the diverse noises put up in various directions by the bustard, the secretary-bird, the ostrich, the stork. In the distance, the crashing and the rumbling of a passing elephant could faintly be heard. At the edge of a lake, a giant buffalo bellowed loudly for its mate; a frightened puff adder shot through the grass with incredible speed...
...fine August day, King George announced to his subjects that the proverbial stork had visited Goldborough Hall, Yorkshire, the residence of his only daughter, Mary, and his son-in-law, Viscount Lascelles. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, had given birth to a second son. His loyal subjects responded by wishing joy to the mother and babe, who were reported to be "doing well...
...that he had at length attained unto dizzying financial plenitude and a mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. He had, moreover, a passion for cleanliness. In public life, he stood for: "Clean Water Supply (Prohibition!), Clean Education (Paul Revere's Ride!), Clean Literature (Pollyanna!), Clean Minds (belief in the stork...
Shortly after the Bulletin had descended upon Manhattan, the stork brought another infant, a real surprise, for the general public had only one day's notice of its coming. It was the Daily Mirror. Like all good mirrors, it presented almost a perfect image. In this case it was an almost perfect image of the Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, the Daily News. Their outward semblances varied only to the discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines...