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...exotic reputation, champagne was one of the earliest wines to be successfully produced in the U. S. Nicholas Longworth Sr., great grandfather of the late Speaker of the House, produced it in Ohio as early as 1825, and by 1855 had 1,200 acres of vineyards in cultivation near the confluence of the Little Miami and Ohio rivers. His "sparkling Catawba" at $12 a case sold 150,000 bottles a year. This frontier curiosity was wiped out by the Civil War. Great U. S. champagne country now is the Finger Lakes region of New York State...
Other speakers will be Nicholas Longworth, former minister to Hungary and at present a member of the editorial staff of the New York Herald Tribune, and Alfred Baker Lewis, Socialist candidate for governor of Massachusetts. The subject of the three talks will be "How will the election affect our foreign relations...
Died. Edward Everett Gann, 55, onetime (1914-21) special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, husband of Dolly Curtis Gann; of heart disease; in Washington. Unruffled throughout his wife's squabble over precedence with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he patiently attended every function at which Mrs. Gann Vice President Curtis were official guests...
SHADOWS LIKE MYSELF-Clara Longworth (Countess de Chambrun)-Scribner...
...Class of 1915 at the U. S. Naval Academy "Dodo," "Si," "Charlie,"; "Mayevski" and "Johnny" all meant happy-go-lucky, good-natured John Semer Farnsworth of Cincinnati. Appointed on recommendation of Representative Nicholas Longworth, long before that T. R. son-in-law became Speaker of the House, Midshipman Farnsworth won a certain notoriety for his bibulous escapades, was recognized by classmates as an able scholar and tactician. Few years after graduation he took up aviation, studied hard and long, became a Lieutenant Commander in 1925. Two years later his Naval career ended dismally when a court-martial dismissed him from...