Miscellany: Oct. 15, 1923

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At New Castle, Pa., Mrs. S. Deep (colored), aged 30, whose 15-year-old daughter has a 7-month-old boy, claimed to be the nation's youngest grandmother.*

At Savannah, Ga., Francis Marion Gill, a Confederate veteran aged 81, laid claim to being " the oldest father in the U. S." by reason of a boy born a year ago to his wife, aged 36.†

In Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business 14¾%.

In Chicago, a hermaphrodite, three-fourths...

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