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Object of the demonstration was not a world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
Married. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 57, president of Postal Telegraph Cable Co., director of Metropolitan Opera Company; and Anna Case, 42, onetime Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano, daughter of a South Branch, N. J. blacksmith; in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Roslyn, L. I., not far from Mr. Mackay's $6,000,000 estate "Harbor Hill." Among those witnessing the ceremony were the groom's daughter Ellin and her husband, songwriter Irving Berlin, whom Mr. Mackay had never before countenanced. After the ceremony bride & groom cruised away on his yacht Manchonoch...
...Governor Roosevelt married his cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Anna Edson Taylor, Oct. 24, 1901; Bobby Leach, July 25, 1911; Jean A. Laussier, July 4, 1928. Last July George Stathakis went over in a barrel, smothered to death while waiting rescue from the cataract below the Falls. Last May as well as the May before one William ("Red") Hill rode over the lower rapids in a barrel. He did not go over the Falls either time...