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Mrg Katherine, D. Clay, an
"Every mother should have an outside interest." Só xays Mrs. Katherine Bouto Clay, mother of three children, who has received an A. B. degree from Binard College, the first woman of her position and years to attain such an honour, She perfor ned her seemingly impossible tisk of doing house-work and earning a college degree after ten years of devotion to her family-by utilizing every spare mumcat, doing most of her studying on subway trains. Mrs. Clay now plans to try for higher honours, she has stated.
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Martha I/orber
Carle E Carleton.
Miss Martha Lorber, premier danseuse of the Ziegfeld "Follies," will be Mrs. Carl Carleton No. z. Carleton, prominent the strical producer, who recently returned from abroad, has declined to discuss the rumour, but persons who should know have stated that the engagement will soon be annouced. He was formerly the husbid of Miss Edith Day, musical comedy star, whose marriago to Pat Somerset, the English actor and constip with her resulted fram a complicated entanglement of heart-strings. Carleton "discovered" Miss Dy, made her a star and later divorced her.
arshalls
Mrs. Marshall Fleld beautiful wife of a scion of the famous Chi- |cago merchant prince, is said to be the most heavily insured woman in the world, having just taken out policies which bring the total of her insurance up to $2,000,000. The policies are divided aming 24 life insurance companies.
Yolf tracki
From manufactured clouds over a miniature village artificial lightning of 2,000,000 volts has been produced in a series of experie ments at Pittsfield, in the laboratory of the General Electric Company, Lightning flashed from make-believe clouds and levelled buildings in the pseudo village. The sound of the accompanying thunder was en tirely realistic. In some tests rain, also, was produced. Despite the fact that lightning travels at the velocity of light-186,000 miles per second-engineers were able to measure the shape of the flash and determine its pressure. This is the lightning generator which produced the flash of 2,000,000 volts and a ten-million horsepower electrical
force.
Dr. Murray Dar
Miss Helena Drachuman, 21 was Two members of the senior class at Hobart College, Geneva, were
found murdered under a rail-road expelled by President Muray culvert near Youngstown Ohio. She
: Senator. Holm C. Bursunt, Re- publican, who succeeded Senator Albert Fall as
one of New Mexico's representatives, in the Senate by the next Congress of the
Bartlett and Dean W, P. Durfee at had been stabbed five times and billion-dollar adjusted compen-
the begin of commencement
sation bill. He, has announced that the bonus fight in behalf of America's four million World War veterans will be waged from a view, chairman of the Senate pension angle --that of legality. Bursum,
committee, declared that America contracted a "legal obligation" by forcing its soldiers to pay their forced allotments during the war trated when Miss Rebecca Smith, a member of the Class of 1873 at own insurance and in requiring
excrcises there. Degrees were her head tightly encased in alinen withheld from three others for a period of three months. The duster which had been tied about students are alleged to have been her neck. Miss Drachman had been implicated in the hazing and missing for a week from the Young rioting which tuned Geneva Into Women's Christian Association a bedlam early last month.. Lloyd: Hyde, a victim of the hazers, was Home, where she lived. Jealousy severely beaten and hurled down is said to have been the cause of fifty-foot embankment into the murder, and arrests have been Seneca Lake. Lawrence H. Loughrey and Theodore
anonymous letter and cited State compensation acts Mount Holyoke Seminary, wore her graduation gown to receive Miss Knowles, football star, were those received by the police led to the in support of his contention: Marion Lewis, of Hyde Park, president of the 1923 Class at Mount President Hardingswill sign, he is expelled.
certain,
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discovery of the body.
The gap of half a century in commencement rashions was demons-
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