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...fondled Wunderkind, he sat in the Empress Maria Theresa's lap, was petted by Madame de Pompadour, spent hours playing private concerts for England's demented music-loving George III. But chronic improvidence and a generous nature gradually brought him into a tangle of debts and grinding responsibilities...
Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
...Chronic murderer though he may be, Cleveland's "mad butcher" is probably an amateur, compared to a quiet old lady of 81 who died last week in the Taunton (Mass.) State Hospital. She, Jane Toppan, declared before they locked her up in 1902: "It would be safe to say that I killed at least 100 persons...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...
Sure enough, he wrote last week in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, most cases of this form of goitre on which he could lay his hands were also chronic sufferers from tonsillitis. He induced some of these patients to have their tonsils removed. Every one felt better. Most of those who also had their overactive thyroids excised recovered, lost their distressing excitability...