Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel had established a gaming place in St. Augustine, Fla., with his brother John, when Promoter Henry M. Flagler suggested that his budding social colony at Palm Beach needed a place to risk its money. Bradley's celebrated Beach Club was opened in 1898. In its 36 years, rare is the U. S. Big Name which has not applied for a guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered...
Married. Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis; and Roger Makins, Second Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington; in Tallahassee, Fla...
Died. Henry White Cannon, 83, onetime president of Chase National Bank, comptroller of Currency under President Arthur; after a brief illness; in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was a onetime associate of "Empire-Builder" James Jerome Hill, a sponsor of Rear Admiral Peary's expedition to the North Pole...
Professor Ames's father, who died last year at 97, was the last Yankee governor of Mississippi, the last surviving Union general of the Civil War. He was long the daily golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller at Ormond Beach, Fla. When Adelbert Ames Jr. set out to track down aniseikonia in 1927, it was John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who furnished the money. Last week the New York Herald Tribune reported the fact that Son Rockefeller himself has aniseikonia, that he has obtained considerable relief from his iseikonic spectacles...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Emily Haag Buck Ringling; by Circusman John Ringling; in Sarasota, Fla. Charges: vilification, physical violence which caused the pulse of Mr. Ringling, ill with thrombosis, on occasion to rise from...