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...arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband's bubbles as vice-president of the company, which she watched carefully as it developed a turnover of some ten millions...
Shubert Theatres Corp. is the holding company for U. S. theatrical, cinema, amusement and real estate wealth of Lee and Jacob J. Shubert. It earned them $2,320,867 last year, twice as much as during the previous year...
...Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt...
...reads the Thousand and One Nights, learns to set type, begins writing prose and verse for Brooklyn sheetlets, the Star, the Patriot. When city life irks?even New York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain...
Married. Miss Dorothy Anna Maria Schurman, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman to one James Marshall McHugh, Lieutenant U. S. M. C.; at the U. S. Embassy, Berlin, in the presence of the German Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, and his wife and many another...