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...Hallie Davis Elkins, relict of the late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia, moved to break the will of her late son, Stephen Jr., in Washington. Mrs. Elkins claimed that the deceased was under the influence of a Mrs. Evelyn I. Martin, to whom he left the contents of his Manhattan apartment and a Virginia fishing camp. Last month Mrs. Martin sought to restrain Mr. Elkins' brother from removing liquor from the apartment...
Died. Adele Strauss, 70, relict of famed Viennese composer Johann Strauss ("Blue Danube" waltz, Die Fledermaus operetta); at Vienna; of pneumonia...
After Elverson Sr.'s death, Col. James Elverson Jr. managed the paper. Last year Col. Elverson died, leaving the property, housed in a big new $10,000,000 plant, to his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Elverson Patenotre, relict of a onetime French Ambassador to the U. S., whose son Raymond is a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Mrs. Patenotre's desire to live near her son was given as a reason for her selling out, for a reputed $18,000,000, to Curtis-Martin...
Died. Emily Todd Helm, 93, relict of General Ben Hardin Helm, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga...
Died. Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan, 64, relict of William Jennings Bryan; at Hollywood; of arthritis...