Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlike the publicity-mad deities apotheosized nowadays by ogling mayors at all-American beauty contests, Miss Anna Willess Williams sought to keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge...
Died. Signorina Anna Sarto, 76, youngest sister of the late Pope Pius X;* at Rome, in a tiny apartment facing St. Peter's Square, where she lived with her only surviving sister, Signorina Maria Sarto...
...Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who is pre siding at the trial of David L. Marshall, charged with killing Anna May Dietrich and dismembering her body...
Last week Mrs. Harrison appeared in court again. She told how for some time she had been missing various articles: pins, rings, linen, gold chains, diamond chains, bracelets, antique combs. When her maid Anna Bernhardt, aged 23, last week gave notice, Mrs. Harrison became suspicious. She called in the police. Detectives Gallagher and Murtha strolled over from the East 104th Police Station (her apartment is at 1160 Fifth Ave., the corner of 97th St.). They searched the maid's room and found the missing articles. In court Miss Bernhardt wept on her mistress' shoulder, asked for a chance to prove...
...energetic young German, Henry Heinz, emigrated to the U. S. His ancestors, Bavarian winegrowers, had acquired high esteem from as early as 1709. In Pennsylvania he met and married in 1843 Anna Margaretta Schmitt, also an immigrant. Her father had been a burgomeister, an elder in the church. A year later their baby, Henry John, was born. In 1850 they moved to Sharpsburg, Pa., where the young father established a brick yard. Frugal Anna wanted her own kitchen garden, had one laid out much larger than her own family needs, sold produce to neighbors. Here among the cabbage tops...