Word: altadena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hupp director. At the age of 19 he was a dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...
Died. John Dalzell, 82, for 26 years (1887-1913) Republican member of Congress from Pittsburgh; at Altadena, Calif. Known as "Father of the House", he with Payne, Dingley and Cannon, were the "big four" who shaped legislation...
Died. Barbara La Marr (Reatha Watson), 29, famed cinema actress, daughter of William W. Watson, Portland, Oregon, newspaperman; at Altadena, Calif., of a lingering illness. "More than 120,000 persons" passed her bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted...