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...Calvin Bullock advertisements never carry the firm's address. Bushy-browed, slightly bald, he prefers talking about his collection of Napoleonana to talking business. Prized items include the personal chest which Napoleon carried on many of his campaigns, a bust of himself which Napoleon carried to St. Helena, Lord Nelson's dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings. On the wall to the right of Banker Bullock's big desk is the famed copy of the London Times of June 22, 1815, carrying the first four-day-late hearsay story of the Battle...
While the Assay Office keeps gold & silver, its main business is to test coins and bullion, analyze ore samples for all-comers at a small fee. It is run as a department of the Mint, with headquarters in Manhattan, branches in New Orleans, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Helena, Carson and Deadwood. Once a year, in the presence of the Director of the Mint, the Assay Commission meets to test samples of U. S. coins. One gold piece out of 1,000 and one silver coin out of 2,000 are selected at random. All incoming foreign coins and bullion...
SHEBA VISITS SOLOMON-Helena Eliat -Viking...
...Russian, Helena Andreievna, true to her national character, merely exists; a scornful abnegation of action, pathetic and complete, amid a provincial atmosphere of absolute futility and endless talk. Nobody dies, nobody lives; the play is another month in the country, and ends as it began. The Western Hedda winds a different tale around herself; frustration drives her to the point of active fiendishness...
...marriage license bureau went large, ruddy William Angus Drogo Montagu, 55, ninth Duke of Manchester, and Miss Kathleen Dawes, 34, daughter of a London theatrical manager. Both had arrived from England few days before, preceded by news that the divorce decree of the Duchess of Manchester, the former Helena Zimmerman, daughter of the late Cincinnati Brewer Eugene Zimmerman, had just been made final. Mayor James John Walker waited at City Hall to marry them. But because the Duke had no copy of the final decree, and because New York law forbids the marriage of an adulterous divorce defendant within three...