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...Last week, Death carried off this famous soldier in his 73d year. He died of complications arising from an operation for appendicitis performed last March. Little more than a fortnight ago, Lord Oxford and Asquith (ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith) paid tribute in a speech to Field Marshals Lord Haig and Kitchener, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, General Sir John Cowans ("best Quartermaster since Moses") and ex-Premier George as "the five great men [British] of the War." The name of Lord Ypres (Sir John French) was not mentioned, but neither were those of Lords Beatty, Allenby and Northcliffe...
...this latest, there are two new ones, Tell Me More and My Fair Lady, which will exercise the springs of many a phonograph. There is also a plot about a girl who pretended she was a shop clerk to see whether her hero's love were real. Emma Haig, Andrew Tombes and Lou Holtz are, next to Mr. Gershwin, the chief contributors...
...best political convention style. Messages were read from Rear Admiral Sims, from Charles P. Donnelly (President of the Northern Pacific Railway), Lord Byng (Governor General of Canada), Josephus Daniels, General Diaz of Italy, Admiral Beatty of England, General Pershing, Major General Lejeune, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Wilbur, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Koontz, Georges Clemenceau, Newton D. Baker, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman...
...Westminster Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend...
Died. Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler, 70, cousin of the late President Roosevelt, at Nyack, N. Y., of cardiac rheumatism. Before Prohibition he and his cousin, Samuel Roosevelt, were sole agents in the U. S. for Haig & Haig, Scotch whisky...