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Died. Rev. Ansel M. Mueller, 85, "oldest priest in the Franciscan order in the U. S.," at Joliet...
Died. Homer Cooke, 94, "oldest practicing lawyer in the U. S.," at Waukegan, Ill. He was a personal friend of Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuch, 82, oldest member of the German Social-Democratic Party, personal friend of the late Karl Marx (1818-1883), in Berlin. He was Honorary President of the National Assembly at Weimar, 1919, which adopted the present constitution of the German Republic...
Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spoke on prohibition in Boston, saying: "The 'upper crust' which 'feels itself above and superior to the law, and the 'dregs' who strike beneath the foundations of American liberties? these two classes exist everywhere, especially in Boston, where the oldest families . . . violate...
Most of the ships which took part were built during the War, the oldest ship being the Queen Elizabeth, which tested its guns on the Dardanelles forts...