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This photograph shows society folk fleeing, with hastily gathered bundles of clothing and valuables, from the burning Breakers Hotel. at Palm Beach, which was razed with an estimated Toss of $2,000,000. Following on the heels of the first fire, the Palm Beach Hotel, another exclusive resort, went op in flames. Many of the fashionably guests hoth hotels were unable to save any of their valuablo elothing and jewellery.
MISS ANNA OSTERHOUT
The engagement of Miss Anna Marie Osterhout, daughter of Pro- fessor and Mrs. William J. Osterhout, of Harvard University, to Theodore Müller Edison,, son of the famous inventar, Thomas Alva Edison, has. been announced: The wedding will také pince apon in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard Min Osterhout in a student Vassar College, while young Edison in a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno. logy
CHARINE ROSENBERG AND HIS MOTHER
Charlie Phil Rosenberg, new world's bantamweight champion, is pictured shown on his widowed mother's lap, telling her how bo defeated Eddie "Cannonball" Murtin, in New York, for the champion- ship.
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For the first time in many years, the United States Sonate refused to confirm member of a Prosident'a Cabinet, rejecting the nomination of Charles Beecher Warren'
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Misa Annette Ashbury, of Fulham, in the first woman elected a member of the British Society of Engineers. She is manager of a big factory.
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Termed by police officials as the most dangerous criminal of the age, Gerald Chapman, who escaped from the Jail where he was serving a term for mail robbery, was placed on trial for his life, charge with the murder of James Skelly, a policeman. The notorious bandit has "declared that the "cards are stacked against him," and that he "hasn't got a chance." With the stories of Chapman's daring escape from the jall, followed by his flight from the prison hospital with three hullets in his body, fresh in their minds, the police authorities have turned the city into a veritable armed camp, in the fear that he might make another attempt at escape while his life hangs in the balance.
EXANCHE SWEET MARSHALL MERIDA AJ Marshall Netian, widely known motion picture director, and his wife, Blancke Sweet, actress, engaged in a dance floor argument in a cafe when, police report, Neilan objected to the conduct of his wife's dancing partner. Nefien is said to have been struck, in the face by the man, No arrests were made and Neilan and his wife kissed each other and left the cafe together.
Akers: TEAN ROTHIER & MRS, PIERRE MDRACCHINI, Below: MRS. FRANCES DRANDON & SIR.CHARIA? 7. HIGIAM
Leon Rothier, romantic braso of the Metropolitan Opera Company, yas been named as corespondent in the divorce zult brought by Piers Moracchini, French Vice-Consul in New York, against his wife, Mrs. Pierre Moracchini. Mr. Francen Marion Brandon, thirty-five, flanking brunette, Assistant Corporation Counsel of New York Olly and well kadwn the in-legal and politicat etreles, announced her engagement to George F. Cillosgie, Br, fifty-four, one of the best known figures lo. New York social, legal and politicaş "eirolas," and personal counsal for Patrick Cardinal Hayes: Gillespie fomediately: retorted that no engagement existed, and there you are. Bir Charles Higham; British
tea mun, on a visit to New York, warned Americans that women were' fast supplanting mon as successful busiñana "mén.""
I WONDER IF MY DAUGHTER.THINKS SHE'S GOIN' OUT DRESSED LIKE THAT-
NOW LISTEN
BRINGING OP FATHER
JUST A MINUTE -FATHER
DO YOU THINK IT IS NICE FOR YOU TO BE SO CARELESS IN YOUR DRESSP
AS I WUZ GONNA
SAYE
40 UP TO YOUR ROÓM
·AND GET DRESSED- HOW DARE YOU WALK
AROUND LOOKING LIKE
THAT
LET ME SEE WHAT ・WAS IT THAT | WUZ
GONNA SAX?