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...Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted into the Pullman a friend asked: "How do you feel?" "Splendid!" said he. But in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, where his private cars were hooked...
Weakened by a prolonged cold, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. abandoned his annual trip to his Ormond Beach, Fla. winter home...
...often one likes to think that it is so!" And of similar extravaganza there is abundance. But happily, it is accompanied by faithful, intelligent, and occasionally inspired research. There are many satisfying stories: The name Sherlock, at the last moment, supported that of I. Sherrinford, Watson was originally Ormond Sacker,--and to prove it there is reprinted a cut of the first page of Doyle's manuscript. Doyle, himself, engaged in detective activities with gratifying success. Four publishers sniffed at the "Study in Scarlet" before Ward, Lock & Co. achieved immortality by purchasing the copyright for 25 pounds...
Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor...
...Ormond Beach, Fla., John D. Rockefeller Sr, reviewed the children's parade in a village street fair, watched a 5-year-old girl do a toe-dance. He asked a prizewinner, "What will you give me if I give you this ribbon?" The little girl gave him a kiss. He chuckled and kissed her hand, later put his hand on a child's head and spryly kicked over...