Mother-in-Law
In Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Louella Paugh bequeathed to her daughter-in-law one rolling-pin, one potato-masher.
Boycott
Guerino Baldi, Spanish-American War veteran, self-styled artist, accused the “Juries of the American Contemporary Art for the New York World’s Fair” of a “perfidious verdict” in rejecting his oil painting. Indignantly wrote Painter Baldi: “I most frankly state that I have revolutionized the art of painting. . . . The reason to boycott my painting took place to protect from monetary disaster and depreciation all the canvas and exterior painting, where there is many billions of dollars involved throughout the world. . . .” Mr. Baldi’s rejected work was a picture of Rudolph Valentino fighting a docile bull beneath an inset of the Great Lover as he appeared in The Son of the Sheik (see cut).
Aldens
In Manhattan was held a meeting of a society known as the Alden Kindred of New York and Vicinity. Qualifications for membership: to be one of the 5,000,000 descendants of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins—vicinity, it was explained, meaning anywhere in the U. S. Twelve members, none named Alden, showed up, discussed plans for the winter.
Justice
In The Bronx, Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan warned a jury panel that $500 worth of property had been stolen from his chambers in a few weeks’ time, explained: “Nothing is safe around here unless it is nailed down. [Someone] even made away with my towels and soap.”
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