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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1923
Page
2
Mrs. Jennie Feldman of Brooklyn asserts she is the great grandniece of Bishop Martini Horowitz and rightful heiress to 85 million dollars. For seventeen years her husband Joe Feldman has toured New York playing a wheezy hand organ and dreaming of proving the claim.
The youthful Earl of Northesk and Miss Jessica Brown admit they are practically engaged and may wed soon. Miss Brown, recently back from London to America and a Buffalo native, is connected to the Ziegfeld Follies. The Count’s heir is twenty one and an officer in the Coldstream Guards, inheriting the title and estate his father left in 1921.
A hotel cook devised a novel egg boiling method using hollow porcelain imitation eggs with screw tops. A real egg is placed inside, boiled, then served on a stand. guests unscrew the top to eat. If underdone, the egg can be boiled longer. if overdone, it can be warmed for another guest.
The item compiles scattered notes on science and society. It references light from the sun versus the moon, superstition about sneezing as luck, Lloyd-Greame as a trade board head relaxing through song, Malta’s dense population in history, an ancient Egyptian crank drill pre 8000 B.C., and Viscount Lascelles as a collector of old wellness.
The medium known as Mrs King, long reputed in English society, is identified as the widow of the late Hon Alfred Lyttleton brother of Viscount Cobham. A prominent supporter of the English Speaking Union, she is a close friend of Lady Astor and accompanied her to the United States.
Traul Sobrero of Los Angeles received official papers from Rome confirming he is a baron. The title descended from his father the duke of Genoa for military service, but Sobrero only learned of it when the papers arrived.
A Cleveland Path Finder notes that purportedly thousand year old Indian corn found in ancient Egyptian tombs is a fraud. Scientific tests show seeds lose vitality after twenty to thirty years, though under ideal conditions some survive a decade with limited germination potential.
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