This is the latest photograph of beautiful Jessica Brown, who is engaged to marry fue youthful Scottish Earl of Northesk, formerly an officer in the Coldstream Guards. The Earl is in America for the wed- ding, but the couple have been refused a marriage license in New York following the declaration of Cyril de Witt Reinhard, her former hus band, that her divorce is not legal. It is now reported they will go to
·Canadyfor the wedding.
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To save the lives of pedestrians this new safety-bumper has been offered for testing to the Chicago, Safety Council By means of a mechanical device the driver is able to drop the bumper as a fender, and'a furled apron is extended upward at the same time, thus making a canvas hammock at the front of the automobile. This scoops up the victim and carries him along unhurt until the car can be brought to á stop.
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Miss Katherine H.Shea, Charles". town girl. Chief Marshal of the Commencement Day exercises at Barnard College, Columbia Uni- versity, and an honour graduate, will enter Harvard School of Engineering to continue her
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Feodore Chaliapin, the world.
courses in electrical engineering. famous Russian, tenor, who has She has been awarded a scholar-
ship. Miss Shea plans to win a been touring America, bas sailed Harvard degree and then go to Oxford University. England for a two-years post graduate course.
for a pleasure tour of Europe.
Henry H. Curran, Republican Mayoralty candidate in New York City in 1921, has been named by President Harding to be Commis- the Ellis Island, New York station stoner of Immigration in charge of
Succeeding Robert E. Tod, 'who resigned.
THURSDAY AUGUST
Helen Blosvoru MarkLEUME.
This is a new photograph of Helen Blossom Martin, nurse and secretary to a physician, who was strangled to death by Eleugia Lazade, a Filipino servant in the physician's household. Later the Filipino was arrested as he sought to throw her body into the river, It is revealed that the nurse was the occupant. of a "love nest" main- tained for her by a millionaire shoe manufacturer, a married man, and that the Filipino killed her for jealousy.
wer Princess
Pattic annoucement has been made in London of the engagel ment of the Princess Royal, Maud, to Lord Carnegie, son of the Ear of Southesk, whose kinsman the Earl of Northesk, is in America to marry Jessica Brown, the dancer. Princess Maud is the eldest
It is reported that 100,000 Bulgarian peasants are preparing to attack Sofia, the capital, to turn out the daughter of the late Duke of Fife, who lost his life as a result of a shipwreck off Gibraltar in 1991, in which the Princess miraculously military regime which has seized the reins of Government, This photograph shows a view of Sofia: with
the Houses of Parliament, the Church of St. Nicholas of Neski and a monument to a former ruler. escaped. She is 30.
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Former bantamweight champion Pete Herman, shown here with his little daughter in his home in New Orleans, is rapidly recovering his eyesight. In a fight two years ago with Midget Smith, Herman became totally blind as a result of blows, in the face. After the gamest flight of his career, he is slowly recovering and hopes to be able shortly to become a manager of a stable of prize fighters. His boxing days are over.
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