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Divorced. Mrs. Louisa Carpenter Jenney, dashing horsewoman, niece of Pierre Samuel du Pont, great & good friend of Torchsinger Libby Holman; from John King Jenney, du Pont executive; in Wilmington, Del. Rich Mrs. Jenney sheltered Singer Holman in 1932 after the death of her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds, later adopted a small girl to keep Smith Reynolds Jr. company...
...Duke of Cambridge, cousin of Edward VII, who was married morganatically to Louisa Fairbrother...
...Andrew Lang and Thomas Hughes, Cambridge's parody on "The Dark Blue," "The Light Green" is next. Its attitude is evident from the names of its "authora": "Alfred Pennysong, Bred Hard, Edward Leary. Algerman Charles Sin-Burn. Thomas Carr Lisle, the late Edgar Allan Toe, Rosina Christetti, and Louisa Caroline...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. one day last month Death rounded out 18 years of solitude in her two-story house for 79-year-old Spinster Louisa Herle. When her safe yielded but a paltry $100,000, relatives immediately began a search of the house. On the top floor they found not a cent. Under mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with...
Died. Julian Hawthorne, 88, author, only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne; after long illness; in San Francisco. He was a childhood playmate of Louisa May Akott & her sisters, whose antics are described in Little Women. After brief experience as an engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost...