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Last fortnight Edyth B. Gray, of Groton, Conn., Uncas descendant, started suit for $1,000,000 against the State of Connecticut and the city of Norwich, on the ground that the royal burying plot, now reduced to 16 acres, had been dese crated by the removal of tombstones, the erection of a Masonic temple, high pres sure real estate development...
...structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad in sombre dresses, the three aristocratic women carried heavy volumes of history, old maps, aging documents to prove their claim. The railroad's defense: a drawbridge would cost $2,000,000; its operation would delay such trains as the 20th Century Limited; the Croton...
...Ford stockholders who had sold their shares. The Bureau charged the Senator owed the Government $10,000,000. He, vexed, cried sincerely: "I don't give a damn about the $10,000,000, but (Continued on p. 8) I don't want to lose!" He won his suit, donated his winnings to charity...
Harvard's outlook is national. The cosmopolitan easterner little realizes how widely the dinner coat is unfamiliarized. A dozen years ago I hunted out an old dress suit for a party, and with a simple cloth mask passed totally unrecognized among a small group of western neighbors to whom I was as well known as the local postmaster...
...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...