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Died. Volney T. Hoggatt, 74, oldtime newspaperman, conductor of the "Ornery Man" column in the late Frederick Gilmer Bonfils' Denver Post, onetime editor of The Great Divide, weekly affiliate of the Post; of heart disease; in Denver. In Alaska, in 1900, he founded the Ornery and Worthless Men's Club of America. Among members were the late Tex Rickard, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Vice President Garner, Senator Huey Long, the late Governor Rolph of California, all members of the Anti-Saloon League. A close friend of Bonfils, Hoggatt used to amuse him by turning somersaults, slipping his false teeth through...
...faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked up the gangplank of the destroyer Gilmer and she stood away, down the Severn, to the point where the cruiser Houston lay anchored...
...mail, a special library of 300 books, his seven-foot bed in the Admiral's suite. The entire Press and Public were represented by Associated Pressman Francis M. Stevenson, United Pressman Frederick A. Storm and Universal Serviceman Edward L. Roddan who trailed two miles behind in the Gilmer. Two additional secret service men followed in another destroyer, the Williamson...
Left. By Frederick Gilmer ("Bon") Bonfils, flamboyant publisher of the Denver Post: a net estate of $11,829,570.12 (almost four million more than was estimated when the will was opened after his death-TIME, Feb. 13, 1933); to his foundation for the "Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind," his wife, daughters, other relatives, employes...
...many enemies of the late notorious Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, said that he wore his yellow journalism with a difference-as protective coloration over an armor of blackmail. Few men have received such audibly frank obituaries. Last week Denverites were forcibly reminded of the "Old Dragon of Champa Street" when newsboys, billboards, burgees, street ballyhoos and all the paraphernalia of a high-pressure sales campaign launched The Great I Am, a thinly-veiled story of Publisher Bonfils' rackety career...