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Like the lives of many religious leaders -Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy-her biography is spotted with lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door...
Legislator. Matthew J. Patterson, plump, horn-spectacled member of the State Legislature and Vare-Republican leader of the 19th ward, was arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies...
Sued for Divorce. Frederick Beck Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, Ohio; by Mrs. Evelyn H. Patterson...
...straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...
...Republicans nominated Roscoe C. Patterson to oppose Mr. Hay for Reed's seat...