Probably tin- most strange present ever given to a bride was that which nn eccentric old {rmitlemnn sent on the occasion of the nuirriagu of Sir Edward Ridley, formerly Mr. Justice Ridley. It was the skeleton of an Austrian grenadier. The donor had once seen the future Lady L'idii.'y making a study nf a skull, a nil von'od he would scad her ajwhoie skeleton when sha married. So nnuuig tli:r presents wue a tall oak box containing the. skeleton, n gaieeomo addition to Miss !srom!ey Davonpinr's otherahnrmimr gifts. Half a. million hsirrrls of high-grade petroleum in ten years is the record yield of one of the pioneer wells in tho Salt Creek o'iliieitl o£ Wyoming.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 6
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