Milestones: Aug. 13, 1923

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Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, in Manhattan, a daughter, their third child. The oldest is Archibald, Jr., and the second is Theodora.

Engaged. Princess Olga, 20, eldest daughter of Prince Nicólaos (third son of King George I of Greece), to Prince Paul of Serbia.

Engaged. Miss Mildred Harris, motion picture actress, former wife of Charles S. Chaplin, to "an Eastern capitalist "—thought to be Harry McGovern, Florida widower.

Married. Lady Rachel Cavendish, fourth daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, to the Hon. James Stuart, third son of the Earl of Moray. The first Earl of Moray was half-brother to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Married. The Countess of Starhemberg to Prince George Vincenz of Thurn, at Vienna. The marriage was performed by Father Seipel, Chancellor of the Austrian Republic, who is spiritual adviser to the Starhemberg family.

Married. Thomas Jefferson Ryan, 33, former Representative in Congress from New York, to Mrs. Gertrude Keleher, who was divorced from John B. Keleher, Washington turfman, in 1920, in St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church at Glassboro, N. J., by special dispensation from Rome.

Sued for divorce. Voris ("Jack") Reynolds, wrestling instructor at the University of Indiana, by Mrs. Emma Reynolds, at Cedar Rapids, la. She charged cruelty. Reynolds claims to be world's welterweight wrestling champion.

Died. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 29th President of the United States, at San Francisco, of apoplexy following pneumonia. (See page 1.)

Died. A. C. ("Uncle Billy") Hildreth, 100, "oldest B. P. O. Elk in the world," Civil War veteran and Indian scout, at Ouray, Colo.

Died. Alex Y. Malcolmson, 59, original partner of Henry Ford, at Ann Arbor, Mich., after a long illness. He advanced $7,000 in 1902 to found the Ford Motor Co.

Died. Baroness Constance Hoyt von Stumm, wife of Baron Ferdinand von Stumm, in Bavaria, suddenly. She was a daughter of the later Henry Martyn Hoyt, Solicitor General during President Taft's Administration, and a sister of Mrs. Elinor Wylie, poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt, sometime Governor of Pennsylvania, was her grandfather; Morton McMichael, former Mayor of Philadelphia, her great-grandfather.