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Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
...Union Army, married Lily, the daughter of Eberhard Anheuser who had a brewery in St. Louis, went into partnership with his father-in-law and built up the greatest beer business in the U. S. In March 1911, he celebrated his golden wedding in his sunken gardens in Pasadena. (He had other estates near St. Louis, near New York, in Germany.) To his wife, Lily, who had given him seven children (two sons, five daughters) he gave a gold crown set with diamonds & pearls, worth $200,000. Two years later on one of his frequent visits to Germany the Grand...
...quake. I found I could pick up a number of stations northwest-and east of my location. But I did not pick up any south of me & so radio enabled me, in a very amateurish way, to determine that whatever disturbance had taken place was probably south of Pasadena and (because of the interruption to Los Angeles stations) might have affected Los Angeles to a serious extent. Presently I picked up a station west of me announcing that they were making strenuous effort to ascertain the extent of the disturbance. Shortly after we were informed of the Long Beach catastrophe...
...Pasadena, Calif...
Friday evening Citizen Hoover had a moment of alarm when he was told of the California earthquake. He telephoned Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were safe...