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Engaged. Consuelo, Comtesse de Maupas, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul General at Brussels, and sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, to Benjamin Thaw, Jr., American charge d'affaires at Brussels. She was divorced from Jean, Comte de Maupas du Juglart in Paris last November...
...play tomorrow. Frost and not rain has been the cause of the unfitness of the ground, according to John Sullivan, caretaker of the Jarvis, Holmes, and Divinity courts. Each morning for the past two days the courts have been hardened and stiffened by a night frost, only to thaw again in the afternoon. A warm temperature predicted for last night and today may mark the beginning of a thorough drying of the Jarvis Courts. As for the Divinity Courts, next in line of fitness, the most optimistic promise of Mr. Sullivan did not antedate next Monday...
Owing to the unprecedented thaw of snow in the South Kurdistan mountains [Mesopotamia] the Tigris burst its left bank 17 miles north of Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...
...Harry K. Thaw: "Having received a ten day furlough from the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, I went home to Pittsburgh to visit my mother...
...columns of the paper but it also serves as a timely warning. In the forlorn interval between snow and rain when the weather cannot make up its mind what to do and finishes off a morning of October sunshine with an afternoon of December show ending in a February thaw, the daily Infirmary list approaches a ward notice of registered voters. According to statistics the weeks ahead are the lowest on the curve of average health, and the gentleman in the street-cars dragging the huge cod-fish over his back does a thriving business...