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...Onetime wife and dancing partner of the late, internationally famed Maurīce. He (Maurīce Mouvet) was a brother of Oscar Mouvet, twice wounded, twice decorated during the World War, now one of the richest restaurant keepers in Paris. The Mouvet brothers, few know, were born in New York City of Belgian parents...
...Born. To George L. ("Tex") Rickard, fight promoter, and to Mrs. Maxine Hodges Rickard, onetime Chicago actress; a daughter; in Manhattan...
Died. Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin, 88, famed suffragist; at Bredon's Norton near Tewkesbury, England. She was born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838. At the age of 14 she married one Dr. Canning Woodhull. Soon after his death, when she was 24, she married again, Col. James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created...
...York Produce Exchange. William Beatty, born in Montreal, grain broker in Manhattan since 1899, last week became president of the New York Produce Exchange...
Charles Siringo, born in the County of Matagorda, Tex., in 1855, was a cowboy from seven on.* For 40 years he roamed about the West, either shooting at bandits with a large revolver or selling ice cream and cigars in his shop. He helped chase Billy the Kid, whose bloodthirst was of an extraordinary coolness. As a detective he functioned for several years at taming the Wild West. Now he functions at pumping Wild West atmosphere into the eager balloon of his reminiscences. The verses above, quoted reminiscently, describe an oldtime bandit. Also they describe the spirit of Author Siringo...