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Died. Leigh S. J. Hunt, 79, real estate and mining operator; of heart failure; in his office at Las Vegas, Nev. With little formal schooling he became a teacher, then a principal, then president of Iowa's State Agricultural College. With no newspaper experience he bought and edited the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, made money on the side from mines, steel mills, realty. Wiped out in the panic of 1893, he went to the Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First...
Divorced. William Powell, cinemactor; by his second wife, Carole Lombard Powell, cinemactress; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty ("a very emotional man, cruel and cross in manner of language...
Divorced. Noble Brandon Judah, 49, onetime (1927-29) U. S. Ambassador to Cuba; by Dorothy Patterson Judah. 40, daughter of the late John Patterson, founder of National Cash Register Co.; in Carson City, Nev...
Married. Michael Cudahy, Chicago meat-packing scion (grandson); and Mary Jacklyn Borax, dancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Married. Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson Ogle, novelist; and Christian Eliot, nephew of Granville John Eliot, Earl of St. Germans; in Las Vegas, Nev., day after she was granted a divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle in Juarez, Mex. Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused...
Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 53, Manhattan oil tycoon; by Marguerite Basil Miles Rogers; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...