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...Portland, Me., Herbert L. Pye, 61, ashman, fell heir last week to $1,500,000. Said...
Died. Tom Davis, Negro ashman and drayer, after taking an anesthetic preparatory to a minor operation; at Niles, Mich. One day, many years ago, Mr. Davis gave a white boy a job and picked a dog out of an ashcan. Both proved faithful. A few years ago the dog was dead and the boy was rich. Pictures of both appeared in the newspapers because the boy was John F. Dodge who, with Horace E., was Dodge Brothers ("Constant improvement-no yearly models...
...Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave it for his fellow city employe with the other cart...