Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1914 — SAYS HE IS LORD’S SON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAYS HE IS LORD’S SON

Brookline (Mass-) Man Asserts He and Not Daughter Is Heir to $50,000,000 Estate. Boston. —Asserting that he is the son of Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, late high commissioner for Canada. James H. Smith of Brookline will take steps, it is said, to obtain recognition of his interests in thg vast Strathcona "He is a full brother of Mrs. Margaret Charlotte Howard of London, who is recorded as Lard Strathcona’s

daughter and heir,” Mrs. Smith said. "Mr. Smith was in constant communication with his father.” The Smiths and their three children live In a comfortable but unpretentious home on Strathmore road. Two of the daughters were in England last year.