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Died. Mrs. Lucie Oelrichs Jay, 75, Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned against Conductor Karl Muck, founded the New York City Anti-German Music League and Mrs. William Jay's Committee for the Severance of All Social & Professional Relations With Enemy Sympathizers...
...president and board chairman of Emerson's Bromo-Seltzer Inc. (a company controlling Citro Chemical Co. of America, Maryland Glass Corp., and Emerson Drug Co.), hotel and realty owner; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Col. Emerson was a famed yachtsman, and with his daughter Margaret (Mrs. Charles Minot Amory, relict of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who died in the Lusitania disaster) a horse breeder...
Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter...
Engaged. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late President James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railroad...
Married. Will H. Hays, president of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., onetime (1921-22) Postmaster General; and Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman, relict of the late James Flynn Stutesman, onetime U. S. Minister to Bolivia...