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...past three years, as "Edward H. Eggleston" he lived in Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, ailing from arthritis, under treatment by famed Dr. Chevalier Jackson for a throat obstruction. Cities Service's affairs more & more fell into the capable hands of its husky First Vice President William Alton Jones. Last week to canny, mercurial Henry Doherty, reputedly worth $200,000,000 in 1929, still a multimillionaire, death came at 69. Faithful W. A. Jones, at his bedside when the end came, was regarded as the one & only choice for Henry Doherty...
...Theresa, N. Y., Inventor Oscar Eggleston demonstrated a device by which a fish nibbles at a baited hook, sets a red flag waving, a .22 cartridge discharging, an electric bell ringing, a light flashing, a short-wave radio sending signals, brings the fisherman...
...been given almost a free hand with the paper and has instituted what he calls a "streamlined Chronicle." Most of its news is departmentalized, lumped under general headings. Onetime Editor Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only one which pays much attention...
...Doherty, 66, whose Cities Service assets foot up to some $1,250,000,000, was visiting Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital for treatments to his ailing throat. Month ago the press discovered that when he visited Temple Hospital, the alert, goateed petroleum tycoon used the name of "Mr. Eggleston." Fact is, Henry Latham Doherty's home is a ten-room apartment on the hospital's top floor where medical attention is never more than a few moments away...
...Philadelphia Record reported that the name used by Oilman Henry Latham Doherty (Cities Service) when he goes to Temple University Hospital for treatment of his ailing throat is "Mr. Eggleston...