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...Sheppard of Texas, read a carefully prepared rhetorical speech in praise of its "triumphant tread" to an almost empty Senate chamber. South Carolina's Senator Blease predicted full Dry enforcement "if we had a first class deputy sheriff, about three constables and a good federal judge in every township...
Married. Julius Rosenwald, 67, Chicago merchant (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) and charitarian; and Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, 60, of St. Paul, his eldest son's mother-in-law; at his son's home, in Abington Township, Pa. His first wife died last May; Mrs. Rosenwald's first husband died eleven years ago. Rich in her own right, Mrs. Rosenwald received $1,000,000 dowry from her new husband...
...Franklin, Ind., Floy S. Owens, trustee, greatly reduced the township poor fund. Method: he refused to give charity to claimants who arrived at his office in automobiles...
...that her sin found her out-or rather, Ernest had found her out-Milly resolved upon expiation. The united Botts offered her the opportunity. Determined that Titford township should not interpret Ernest's bequest as a Bott scandal, the family council decided that each in turn should harbor and make much of Milly. Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated...
...Minnesota, in the county of Lac qui Parle, in the township of Lac qui Parle, was born, 45 years ago, Theodore Christiansen. He has twice been elected Governor of his native state, in whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...