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Died. Rear Admiral Ashley Herman Robertson, 62, Vice Admiral commanding the U. S. scouting fleet, Spanish and World War veteran; of lung congestion following pneumonia; in San Diego, Calif...
...Monocle," one-eyed racehorse owned by Sir Charles Pulley: the Ashley stakes at Newmarket, England...
Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
...Committee of Selection was advised, with reference to applications for work in creative writing, by a jury consisting of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Dean Wilbur L. Cross of Yale University, and Dr. Ashley H. Thorndike of Columbia University. With reference to applications for creative work in the fine arts, they were advised by a jury consisting of Professor William Emerson, Head of the Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. James E. Fraser, Sculptor, New York City; Mr. Howard Giles, Painter, New York City; Mr. Charles Hopkinson, Painter, Boston...
Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...