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...count is: 15 -2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 + 12 (4 of a kind) + 1 for the nob...
...Solomon Gump left his grocery store in Tallahassee, Fla., went to California. When he saw the rococo mansions which new millionaires were building on San Francisco's Nob Hill, he opened a furniture store, later expanded into the arts. Soon every self-respecting mansion on the West Coast had something from Gump...
...Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what is going...
California gold and Nevada silver built the mansions on Nob Hill (where Mark Twain dreamed of living some day), bought the elegant, satin-lined carriages that rolled over San Francisco's plank streets. They paid for San Franciscans' one-pound gold watches, their champagne (seven bottles to Bostonians' one), their imported building stone from China, accounted as well for San Francisco's 1,000 yearly suicides...
Modern cathedrals, dependent for their growth on donations from the pious, rise slowly-though nothing like as slowly as the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less...