Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Father Jean Gerault de la Corgnals, affectionately known as the "priest of the Bayous," rector of St. Thomas's Catholic Church at Pointe a la Hache, La., possessor of the palm of the French Academy; in New Orleans, of pneumonia. When his parishioners refused to abandon their homes after the dynamiting of the Caernarvon levee to save New Orleans in the Mississippi flood, Father Girault stayed with them; became the only judge, jury, priest and doctor for the flooded parish of Plaquemines...
With the disappearance of the moisture so prevalent in Cambridge last Friday, and the gratifying results of medicinal draughts upon the Vagabond's imminent pneumonia--now happily he is out of danger and once more able to set pen to paper--a problem confronts him; or rather be it admitted, a problem did confront him until very recently. In a word he has decided to quit the hallowed shades of Sever, the exalted glories of Emerson--in short the fair, silvan banks of the winding crystal Charles itself--and bask in Bermuda for the rest of this miserable, cold weather...
Died. James Cox Brady, 45, able financier, lavish host, important Catholic; in Manhattan, after five days' illness, of pneumonia. His father, Anthony N. Brady, (died 1913) accumulated $80,000,000 by organizing public utilities and on the Stock Exchange; the son, with his brother Nicholas F., increased the family fortune. He supported many charities, chiefly Catholic; once he sold all his race horses and gave the proceeds away. For his benefactions Pope Pius XI made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and a private chamberlain of the Cape and Sword; last December King Vittorio Emanuele...
Died. Pauline Welch, 34, onetime (1912-17) wife of Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher, famed cartoonist ("Mutt & Jeff"); in Baltimore; of pneumonia...
Died. Francis Lyman Hine, 76, capitalist, banker ($50,000,000), onetime (1909-22) president of the First National Bank of New York, since then chairman of the executive committee; at Glen Cove, L. L; of heart disease and pneumonia...