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Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he...
Died. Nathan Simms, 80 plus, Coatesville. Pa. negro believed to have unwittingly helped Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth to escape; in Coatesville. Simms said he held a fresh horse for Booth at the Washington boardinghouse of Mary Surratt, a Booth accomplice.
Died. William Gunn Shepherd, 55, famed newspaper correspondent, Collier's staff writer; of pneumonia; in Washington. He covered the Madero revolution and the downfall of Huerta in Mexico, the World War on a dozen fronts, the Russian Revolution and the Paris Peace Conference. . He spent two years probing a...
¶ At Astoria, N. Y. James O'Toole Jr., 9, cheered a Roosevelt radio speech, swallowed the Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed...
In Mount Zion, Wilkes County, N. C.. Dessie Fay Golds Green, 13, gave birth to triplets.