Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Joseph Newburger, 68, Memphis (Tenn.) millionaire, cotton merchant and philanthropist; in Manhattan, of pneumonia and heart disease...
Died. Loton Horton, 72, President, Sheffield Farms Co., Chairman of Board, National Dairy Products Co. (world's largest dairy firm); in Nice, France; of pneumonia. He started life driving a milk wagon for his uncle...
Died. Jules E. Mastbaum, 54, cinema theatre magnate, philanthropist, art collector; in Philadelphia, in the arms of his mother; of pneumonia and uremia, following operation. He was brother of Mrs. Ellis A. Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME...
...must to all men, Death came to Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a nervous breakdown some months ago, he died last week of hemorrhage attendant upon pneumonia at Kabele on Mt. Mikeno, Uganda, Belgian Congo...
Died. Jason Franklin Chase, 54, internationally famed Cerberus of public morals, 19 years Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; in West Roxbury, Mass., of pneumonia and shock. His field of supervision included narcotics, prostitution, gambling, literature. His status was both private and official. Member of the Massachusetts Committee on Sex Publications, he was four times appointed by President Wilson delegate to the International Purity Federation...