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...three days thousands of men, haggard with weariness, blackened with smoke and cinders, struggled to keep the fire back. Sometimes the wind swung round to aid them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
Died. Mrs. Adele Wilson Pringle Taggart of French Lick, Ind., daughter-in-law of late Boss Democrat Thomas Taggart; at French Lick...
...excellent golf and rides daily. He arrives at his office at 9:05, leaves at 4:55. At the Burlingame station his horse and groom await him. He smokes $1 cigars, occasionally takes a cocktail. Outside interests include politics (he is a Republican National Committeeman). University of California and Lick Observatory, to which he has quietly made large gifts. He weighs 180 pounds, stands 5 ft. 8 in., rounds out an impression of correct fastidiousness with an evenly white, severely trimmed mustache and goatee...
...Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President. In 1916 a governor whom he elected...
Died. Thomas Taggart, 72, of French Lick, Ind., longtime Democratic boss; of stomach trouble; in Indianapolis...