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...than they had seen in many a day. From away up North had come one old lady who doubtless would not have made the long trip for any other occasion-Mrs. James Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President of the U. S.- and from Florida had come Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. They, with 21 other persons, were at Georgia's Mt. Berry on the tenth annual "Berry Pilgrimage'' gotten up and directed by a younger woman. Manhattan's Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs. Hammond has taken 157 Berry Pilgrims to Georgia, to interest them in giving...
Died, Alphonso David Rockwell, 92, pioneer electrotherapeutist, ardent opponent of capital punishment, co-developer (with two other physicians and Thomas Alva Edison) of the electric chair; of old age; in Flushing, L. I. Dr. Rockwell & colleagues electrocuted 19 animals before their device was tried out, amid nation-wide protest; on one William Kemmler, murderer, at Auburn...
...country is not going to hell," said Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor Thomas Alva Edison in Manhattan...
...most impressive house in the colony, Marble Hall. It cost $8,000,000. She warmed Marble Hall with the most sensational engagement announcement of the decade, that of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough. (When Consuelo wanted an annulment in 1927, her mother frankly admitted coercion.) Next Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground...
Last week plans were made to bury Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery. She will be interred beside her second husband* in the celebrated Belmont chapel, modeled after that of the Chateau at Amboise. She built that...