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...Asheville, N. C. Mrs. Sarah Coleman Porter, relict of the late great short-story writer, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), began writing "on faith" a magazine serial. She likened the writing urge to measles: "It may crop out at any time...
Thomas, beauteous onetime actress, relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph, placed a "substantial sum" at Miss Tanguay's disposal...
...beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands a clocktower capable of rendering the four-note Cambridge quarters. The clock, crowning jewel of the coronet, is the gift of the relict of Denver's long-time (1904-12, 1916-18) Mayor Robert W. Speer who conceived and planned the Civic Centre on the sand hill...
...Emily C. J. Folger, relict of the donor of the Folger Memorial Library in Washington Litt.D...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...