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Katharine Drexel's Uncle Anthony J. ("Dandy Tony") became an international figure, fond of expensive yachts. Cousin Margaretta married the impoverished Viscount Maidstone (now Earl of Winchilsea & Nottingham). Cousin Anthony J. Jr. espoused Marjorie Gould, daughter of gay George Jay and niece of another pious socialite, Helen Gould (Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard). Other Drexels were much in the world. Not so the daughters of Francis Anthony. Katharine read Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor, toured the West with Elizabeth to find out how Indians were cared for. She found things even worse than the book...
...sets of plans from Great Britain, the U. S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, for a memorial lighthouse to Christopher Columbus in Santo Domingo. When they agreed, they gave the $10,000 prize and a contract for his design to a 24-year-old Briton, one J. L. Cleave of Nottingham...
Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey...
...have a good round and beat a better one. None of these quite likely developments, usually described as reversals of form, occurred last week till the fifth round when the three most likely contestants lost their matches on the same afternoon. One was George Voigt, beaten by the young Nottingham clerk, Sidney Roper, who last year came close to putting Jones out of the tournament. The others were the onetime Champion Roger Wethered, who was runner-up to Bobby Jones last year, and beefy, self-important Cyril Tolley...
Mother of the British Labor Party and still its most potent mentor is that mighty group of British labor organizations whose Trade Union Congress met last week in storied Nottingham Town, onetime haunt of exemplary highwayman Robin Hood...