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Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him...
In Chicago, Mrs. Iva Gousha sued a bottling company for $35,000 because, upon discovering a dead mouse in a bottle of the company's pop, she had incurred the following damages and expenses:
In Chicago, Mrs. Marjorie McKennon sued her husband Paul for divorce, charged that last Christmas he gave their three children gifts of money, filched it while they were asleep, told them next morning that "for some unknown reason" Santa Claus had come back for his presents.
Three years ago C. William Glose, 32, vice president of Philadelphia's Airport Development & Construction Co., was killed in an airplane crash near Tampa. His wife and three children sued Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc. for $200.000. A Newark District Court jury awarded her $56,000; the judge cut...
†Grand Duchess Marie of Russia (now of Manhattan) walked into another Hammer exhibition of Romanov chattels one day last winter, claimed that some of the dishes were from her Petrograd home. When l'Ermitage Galleries, whose dishes they now are, refused to return them, Grand Duchess Marie sued...