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...railroad and mortgage bonds; also the residue of the estate, with power to distribute it among their brothers & sisters as they wish. As executors the two youngest sons may sell or mortgage any part of the estate and take full charge of the Edison industries. In a codicil to the will, the executors are given broad powers in distributing debenture notes of Edison Cement Corp., estimated at $1,070,000, as follows: 5% each to the four eldest, 40% each to themselves, Charles and Theodore Edison...
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Fraülein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...
...Previous medalists: Representative Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. *In his only codicil, Mr. Baker revoked a $2,000 bequest he had made to Frank Healy, who lately left his employ...
Last week Franklin's Boston birth, his affection for Boston, caused a wrangle between city officials and directors of the Franklin Fund. A codicil to Franklin's will bequeathed to the "town of Boston," a fund from his estate, part to be put out at interest for 200 years and the balance to be spent "in public works . . . such as fortifications, bridges, aqueducts, baths, pavements or whatever may make living in its town more convenient . . . and agreeable." The fund last week stood at $458,846. The treasurer of the Franklin Fund, Charles E. Getting, gave Boston...
...wives of all the brothers Bott, Ernest's Milly was the only soft, plump, docile one. The other brothers pondered their wives' angles and acerbities, secretly envied Ernest. When he died leaving his fortune to the "Home for Fallen Women" and adding a codicil, "My wife will know why," the Bott brothers were incredulous, their wives smugly pleased...