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...Winter wheat, planted the autumn before from Texas through Kansas, accounts for about two-thirds of the U. S. crop. Spring wheat planted after the first thaw in Montana and the Dakotas, accounts lor the other third...
PRODIGAL DAYS-Evelyn Nesbit-Messner ($2.50). The bone of contention between Harry K. Thaw and the late Stanford White tells all to the public. THE POEMS OF RICHARD ALDINGTON- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country...
Died. Col. William Thaw II, 40, pioneer U. S. aviator who once flew under the four bridges which spanned New York City's East River, Wartime commander of the Lafayette Escadrille; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh...
...Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (1896) was written by Maude Nugent who sang as a soubrette at Tony Pastor's on Fourteenth Street, at the old Madison Square Garden Roof where Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. Maude Nugent is a grandmother now, gets some $400 a year royalties from "Rosie O'Grady." She lives with a daughter in uptown. Manhattan...
Last week most of Pennsylvania's beavers stayed safely inside their big stick & mud lodges while trappers waited for warm weather to thaw out streams and ponds. With 50,000 trappers in prospect, the Game Commission has limited each one to ten traps, a catch of not more than six beavers during the season. No beaver may be dug or smoked from his lodge, or shot except when found alive in a trap. But the wise trapper, setting his trap a little back from the water's edge, weights it with a heavy stone to drag the struggling...