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Died. Mme Emma La Prevotte France, 45, relict of famed French Author Anatole France (The Red Lily, Penguin Island, The Revolt of the Angels); at Paris. They were married when...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of the late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Cadogan Byrne, relict of Author Donn Byrne (The Wind Bloweth, Messer Marco Polo), and M. M. Willoughby Craig, Irish sportsman; at Oban, Scotland...
Died. Countess Santa Eulalia, 71, of Philadelphia, Indiana farmer's daughter, onetime (third) wife of the late John Batterson Stetson (hats), mother of U. S. Minister to Poland John Batterson Stetson Jr., relict of Portuguese Sculptor Alexis de Queiros Ribeiro de Sotto-Maior d'Almeida e Vasconcellos, Count Santa Eulalia; on her ranch near San Fernando, Calif...
Died. Mrs. Murphy, 75, of Manhattan, dowager hippopotamus of the Central Park zoo, first of her species to enter the U. S. (1880), relict of Caliph I, mother of Caliph II; of indigestion and senility; in Manhattan. Her teeth and appetite had worn away. Her last meal was a meagre 60 Ibs. of chopped hay, 30 qts. of mash...