Milestones: Dec. 22, 1924

Engaged. Miss Leslie Bancroft, of Brookline, Mass., famed lawn tennis player, to one Charles F. Aeschliman of Cannes, France.

Engaged. Mrs. Alada Mills, widow of Brigadier General Albert L. Mills (Superintendent of West Point from 1898 to 1906), to Brigadier General Samuel W. Miller, retired. General Miller, 67, was a classmate of General Mills at the Military Academy.

Died. Robert Allen ("Jack") Wakefield, member of the St. Louis National League Baseball club; in Memphis, suicide by shooting. He had quarreled with his fiancee, had received a disheartening letter from the management of the St. Louis...

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