Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...
Died. Mrs. Marie Hungerford Mackay, 85, "the untitled Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John...
County bank. Later they progressed to Des Moines, to Chicago. Banker Stevens began his career in a Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president...
...Pocatello, Idaho, a big Fokker monoplane banked too steeply, tipped, put its nose into the ground, turned over three times. Four men, a mother and her two children were killed (five of them instantly...
...Evangeline Lindbergh, Spartan mother of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, sailed on the Lloyd-Sabaudo liner Conte Grande to teach chemistry in Constantinople at the American College for Girls. With her, bound for the same institution was Miss Alice Morrow, sister of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow. Both denied that Charles Augustus was engaged to Ambassador Morrow's daughter, Elisabeth...