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Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers...
...Genteel Lady!-Esther Forbes ($2). A charming, witty, philosophical comedy of mid-Bostonian manners...
Married. Miss Esther Studebaker, daughter of Clement Studebaker 2nd (wagons, trucks, motors); to one James Masterson Peticolas, Chicago broker...
...bulks so large in the history of the northern part of that continent, is to be Professor Hackett's subject at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school...
...Manhattan, successively the wife of Hugh Mackay and of John A. Le Boutillier, who died in 1924; at Manhattan. Author Johnson's first wife, Miss Mary Gait Stockley of Lake wood, N. J., married him in 1901 and died in 1911. He married a singer, "Mme. Cobina" (Miss Esther Cobb), in 1912, but shortly afterwards they were divorced and he married Miss Cecile Denis de Lagarde, who died in 1918. In 1921 he married Miss Catharine Sayre Burton, who died in 1923. He is the son of Robert Underwood Johnson, one-time (Feb., 1920, to July...