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Died. James Rudolph Garfield, 84, second son of assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield, member of the "tennis cabinet" and Secretary of the Interior (1907-09) under Theodore Roosevelt, "Bull Moose" Party candidate for the Ohio governorship in 1914; in Cleveland...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
Despite a persistent rain and unmanageable streets, over 100 persons came to Felix's Garfield Street residence to help eat four roast turkeys, six legs of lamb, to deplete a copious liquor supply, and to dance the zenbeikiko, a dance of ancient Greece...
Nothing was found on the girls, who were the only ones left in Briggs on Thursday, and nobody tried to cash the check at a bank. Head resident Mrs. Mason Garfield called the whole thing a false alarm and guessed that the check "had probably blown away or been mislaid...
...latest theft occurred Wednesday night while Briggs residents were having supper. When the robbery was discovered, Mrs. Garfield rang the fire alarm and summoned the 96 residents downstairs, where they were all searched in vain...