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...MANUSCRIPT MURDER-George Limnelius-Crime Club ($2). A lifelong association of four men culminates in the murder of the most despised among them. Reading a detective story with these men as characters brings forth the killer...
...inspected the crumbling house in which William Holmes McGuffey was born in 1800, found the timbers firm enough to permit reconstruction, took an option on the place with plans to make it a memorial. Motorman Ford owns many a manuscript and first edition of the famed readers compiled by William, onetime president of Miami University, Ohio and his younger brother Alexander...
...Come, Marylanders! A long effort and a strong effort to keep this manuscript in the State and in the city of Baltimore...
...Star Spangled Banner manuscript was not included in the great collection of paintings which, with his house, Mr. Walters left to the city of Baltimore upon his death in 1931. Instead, as part of his private estate it was sent to New York for sale at public auction. When the news was broken to Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, a Colonial Dame, she issued a ringing pronouncement which ended...
Prior to the Manhattan auction, a paper manufacturer named Louis Schulman borrowed $5,000 to put to his own $10,000 to buy the manuscript and present it to President Roosevelt. Henry Jacques Gaisman, board chairman of Gillette Safety Razor, was willing to go to $7,500 to present it "to the American people." Before he could finish his speech bids went to $24,000 and the manuscript was sold to the ubiquitous Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach who calmed patriots by announcing that for a "small profit" he was acting on behalf of the trustees of the Walters Gallery...