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...Pittsburgh by her father to see a glass factory. The sight of frightened youngsters working over "the glory hole" reduced her to tears. She went to Cornell, wrote a thesis on "The Law and the Child." She worked at Chicago's Hull House, Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, traveled abroad, became an out & out Socialist. She married a Polish count, bore him two children, took the name of Mrs. Florence Kelley after her divorce. She served four years as Illinois' first factory inspector. She helped to found the National Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because...
...With no settlement in sight and Russo-Japanese feelings tense over the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Kronotsky incident left Russians inflamed. Still more crabbed was Hajime Suritate, head of the Kakumeiso reactionary organization in Tokyo. Brooding the fate of his compatriots on the cape, angry Hajime broke into the office of Soviet Commercial Attache M. Kotchetov with a large glittering sword in his hand. Shrilling Japanese imprecations, he poked his sword through the windows, chopped up the office railings, hacked at the desks, made ineffective swipes at the office staff before retiring to the police station and giving himself...
...sign anything blindfolded, because I am so in love with Barbara!" cried Alexis Mdivani, secretary of a "Georgian Legation" in Paris that neither Russian legitimists nor the Soviet government recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...
...size of the groom's settlement set the world wondering at the size of the bride's fortune. When the late Frank Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate...
Divorced. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-publisher of Chicago Defender, Negro weekly, and Abbott's Monthly; by Helen Thornton Abbott, circa 36 (TIME, June 26). By a property settlement Mrs. Abbott received $50,000, silverware, the family Pierce Arrow...