Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla...
Died, Edward Dean Adams, 85, retired banker; in Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident near Aiken, S. C., last March while he was going to Fort Myers, Fla., to visit his friend Thomas Alva Edison. Born in Boston of a collateral branch of the presidential Adams family, he went to Manhattan in 1878 as a partner in Winslow, Lanier & Co. Reorganizer during the 1880's of many railroads, he reorganized in 1893 the $300,000,000 Northern Pacific of which he was board chairman in 1896-97. From 1890 to 1896 he was board chairman and president...
...racing yachts and his horses. But the most prominent picture on his walls is one of his father. Many times they took an early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products' patent infringement suit against Penick & Ford, or Penick & Ford's patent infringement suit against Corn Products...
...Arcadia, Fla...
...Alexandria, La. last week a Mrs. Carolyn Willis, 64, wealthy, took Louis Paschall of Port Tampa City, Fla. as her eleventh husband. Three of Mrs. Paschall's husbands died; seven she divorced. She rid herself of her last on the ground that he was lazy, lacked ardor on their honeymoon...