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VIRGINIUS DABNEY Chief Editorial Writer Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond...
VIRGINIUS DABNEY...
Died. Joseph Benjamin Dabney, 74, California oil man and philanthropist: of heart disease; at Santa Barbara. He pioneered in the Bakersfield oil fields, helped develop the Ventura field after most big companies had despaired...
This collection is now the most complete existing of the Victorian artist, poet, woodcarver, and eminent socialist. It is the gift of A. H. Parker '98, given in memory of Caroline Miller Dabney Parker, over a period of several years. Among the most recent acquisitions are first editions and original drawings of Crane's illustrations to picture books for children, which sold fifty years ago for a shilling, and are now almost priceless. These include "Mother Hubbard", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Five Little Pigs", which subsequently ran into many editions under the name of Walter Crane's Picture...
...Great Eleven lapsed after the imprisonment of May Otis Blackburn ("Heel of God"). From one Clifford Dabney it is claimed she stole $40,000, having promised to reveal universal secrets. Mr. Dabney declared that she told him he was the Christ but could not prove...