Word: womacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring of 1936 the Travelers' Insurance Co. in St. Louis, Mo. received an agitated telephone call from one John Womack. His voice trembling, Mr. Womack related that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external...
...Womack, deaf and 60, sat aloof, his hand cupped to his ear, as indignant insurance adjusters and store managers recognized not only Bertha Mae but his three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Felis, Mrs. Anna Ehrman, Mrs. Blanche Miller, their three husbands, and a family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently sturdy, the Womacks had for several years proved more susceptible to injury than any family in the U. S. The slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over...
Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...