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Charles W. Davis, 73-year-old Civil War veteran, is now alleged to have seventeen wives. In at least six different States warrants
A world-wide hunt has been be-
gun for "King Benjamin' Pumell, chief of the "House of David," who disappeared, during the trial
have been issued for his arrest asof a civil suit, when shocking. a bigamist.
stories of immorality under the guias of religion were narrated.
Manoeuvres of troops close to the front lines in future wars will be conducted behind dense smoke screens laid 100 feet or more above the earth by aeroplanes. Experiments with smoke screens have been conducted with successful results. The above photograph shows an aeroplane laying down a smoke
screen.
Boy soloist, with a "wonde voice," who has now been promis ed a thorough education, including a college course. The boy, who is 14, is the son of a druggist.
Mirr Louisa Heade
The engagement has been an-: nounced of Miss Louisa Hoar,
daughter of Mrs. Frederick H. Gillette, wife of the Speaker of the American House of Representa tives, and Christopher La Farge, of New York..
Work on the huge ZR-1, the world's largest dirigible balloon, is being pushed ahead. Already parts of the covering of the immense bag are being placed in position over the steel framework, and some of the heavier equipment is being fastened inside. The above gives a good idea of the size of the dirigible, which will make trips to both the North and the South Poles.
TUESDAY JUNE
Mrs. Rachel Noah France, 83, for 20 years one of the old Boston Theatre stock players, leading lady for Edwin Booth Janauscheck, Salvini and Joseph Jefferson, is the guest, in New York City, of the Leland Powers Club and has been, persuaded to give her numerous reminiscences of the stage.. The most thrilling episode of her life was that of playing, in Ford's Theatre, in Washington, the night President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Capt. CIPT
Appointed Chief of the Division of Training in the United States
Navy.
Harry D. MasoIV
Cardina
In honour of the marriage of Princess Jolanda, daughter of the Italian rulers, to the dashing cav-terious injuries, is once more in
alry captain, Count Calvo d'Ber- gola, Pope Pius XI gave permis sion to Cardinal Maffi, stationed in Henry B, Mason, President of the Vatican, to
celebrate the the Philatelist Association, owns
Carl F. Goodnow, a "boy wan- derer," twice the victim of mys-
Miss Amelia Ebert, daughter of
something hospital. He said about being struck while walking on a tonley road, but could tell no
he became un- President Ebert, of the German more, before conscious. Three years ago he Republic, is shown here with Dr.
amnesia resulting, during which whom she is soon to be married. he refused to go to school, ran away from home and tramped the Fraulein Ebert is an employe of
the world's finest collection, of marriage ceremony in the Pauline was'. struck by a cricket ball, Wilhelm Jaenecke, her fiance, to stamps. The association, under Chapel of the Quirinal Palace, in his direction, will hold a conven- Rome. The civil ceremony took
tion shortly.
place in the throne room.
country,
the Public Library-in Berlin.
Claims to be the woman's champion horseshoe pitcher. She received her instruction from her husband, himself an expert. Mrs. Lanham has a record of 35 ringers, with a 21⁄41⁄2-pound shoe, the heaviest allowed. She disdains the regulation 30-foot pitch, throwing from the 40-foot mark that is used by men.
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