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MURDER OF THE NINTH BARONET ?J. S. Fletcher?Knopf ($2). Bloodier & better Fletcher...
Died. Edgar Speyer, 69, banker, onetime board chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Co. of London, Ltd., brother of Wall Street's famed James ("Jimmie") Speyer; of a hemorrhage following a nasal operation; in Berlin. Of German parentage, he became a British subject and banker, was made a baronet and Privy Councillor. During the War he was accused of trading with the enemy, and though denying the charges, requested that his honors be revoked. After the War he was deprived of British citizenship, retired to Manhattan. His wife, Leonora Speyer, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry...
...Hershey baronet...
...developed his own plantations in Ceylon. His interests widened to include candy shops in London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned a steam yacht before...
...Charles Burnett Buckworth-Herne-Soame succeeded to a baronetcy fortnight ago and last week applied for unemployment insurance-the first British baronet on the Dole...