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Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
Dartmouth College Frank Pierce Carpenter, paper manufacturer LL.D. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Governor of New York LL.D. Harry Bates Thayer, onetime (1919-25) President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co LL.D. Harvey Gushing, surgeon Litt.D. Charles W. Tobey, Governor of New Hampshire A.M. Glasgow University (Scotland) Marie Curie, scientist LL.D. Fritz Kreisler, violinist LL.D...
...Your article about Architect Kahn should have everybody's approval: only a great and good man gives away $75,000 of earned income yearly. But in your parenthetical allusion to other note worthy bearers of that name you inadvertently missed an opportunity to do justice to a great scientist. Reuben L. Kahn of the faculty of the University of Michigan gave last year to charity about $75 but nevertheless also received an invitation from the Russian government to come to Moscow, which he accepted as he also accepted invitations from scientific societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen...
...years ago in Nevada, he has spent his life as a newsman, starting in San Francisco. On the staff of the New York Journal he covered the Cuban Insurrection, was seized by Spain for crossing lines without permission, imprisoned for several months. He is the brother of famed Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson (University of Chicago) and Author Miriam Michelson...
Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland...