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...Mexico and the U. S. Southwest the name of Otero is a potent one. Once great landowners, holders in territorial days of one enormous ranch that extended from Pefia Blanca to El Paso, Tex., members of the Otero family have been judges, governors, railroad builders, bankers, billiard champions, sportsmen. During the era of Western expansion, they lived on a scale comparable to that of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War. The first Don Miguel Antonio Otero was born in New Mexico while it was still a Mexican province, declined Lincoln's appointment as Minister to Spain, was instrumental...
...great personal and political charm. Born 67 years ago at the corner of Wells and Van Buren Streets, he often took part in neighborhood blackface minstrel shows, could dance an excellent jig, played third base on a semiprofessional baseball team and was a contestant in billiard tournaments. Thousands of Chicagoans called him '"Bob." In 1910 he was elected Cook County Clerk. Twice he headed the Democratic city ticket against Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, losing without disgrace. Last November Sweitzer was elected Treasurer of Cook County. Last week it became apparent that the second biggest city...
...silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table downstairs. Total proceeds...
...Manhattan last week there arrived a man with a message. A tall, billiard-ball-pated, 46-year-old Negro named Garland Anderson, he was ready to expound his message gratis for five nights in Town Hall, then proceed to Boston, Philadelphia and anywhere else his message was wanted. A leaflet announced that Garland Anderson's ''World Tour" was sponsored by Very Rev. Richard ("Dick") Sheppard, Canon of St. Paul's, Chaplain to King George V. Further, Garland Anderson claimed the backing of Sir John Simon, icy British Foreign Minister. Less impressively, his New York sponsors were...
...Irish faces began to appear. Close on the heels of the Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...