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...Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco is made a Prince of the Church, it will be an election of wide popularity in California, as Mgr. Hanna has made himself one of the most admired citizens of the State, and has served in many civil capacities. He was, for example, appointed Commissioner of Immigration. Born in Rochester, N, Y., he was educated abroad at Cambridge, Munich and Rome. When he was first nominated for Coadjutor Bishop of San Francisco, Pope Pius X refused to confirm the appointment, suspecting Hanna of "modernism," but finally, in 1915, Hanna was consecrated Archbishop of San Francisco...
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., the fourth to bear his famous name, is about to undertake a new method of rolling pennies into the Vanderbilt coffers. On Dec. 10 is to appear in the streets of San Francisco the Illustrated Daily Herald, "a tabloid picture newspaper...
Frank Morris, California author: "Johan Bojer, Norwegian writer stopping at the Whitcomb Hotel, San Francisco, stated that in his opinion I am the world's greatest novelist...
Died. Martha Mansfield, cinema actress, 23, in San Antonio, Tex. The flimsy, hoopskirted Civil War costume which she wore as leading woman in The Warrens of Virginia took fire from a smoker's match. She appeared in other cinemas (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Perfect Lover, Potash and Perlmutter...
...William Randolph Hearst is, of course, the outstanding example of the "chain" newspaper proprietor. His papers in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit and other cities, are replicas of one another. Every important editorial appears in all of them simultaneously, and, theoretically at least, reaches within 24 to 36 hours fully a fifth of all the homes in the United States. Not only is this true, but Mr. Hearst sells his various features to independent newspapers in cities where he is not yet represented. Arthur Brisbane's daily column, for instance, appears in more...