“I yield to no man in my admiration of the journalist,” Lord Burnham declared at a London function. “One day he is standing on the steps ot the throne, the next day he is on the scaffold; one dav he is a welcome visitor in the boudoir of a duchess, the next day he is thrown out of a labour meeting; he is received by the Primo Minister one day and he may find his office door shut against him the next. The journalist is the scapegoat A girl living in Epinal (France) has been refused a marriage license because she has never been officially born. She applied for a birth certificate, which is required before a marriage license c-a-a be -ssued, and the officials searched the records, hut could find no trace of her birth having been entered The girl’s parents had apparently neglected to register her birtlt. t>he was informed that officially she was not born and the wedding has had to be postponed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 75
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