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...James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
Once he had said he wanted to die with Beethoven's seventh symphony ringing in his ears. But pneumonia victims are in coma long before the end. Perhaps the last sound he heard was the mockingbirds singing in the April sunshine...
Died. Nicholas Longworth, 61, 40th Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; of pneumonia; in Aiken...
Died. Isaac Gimbel, 74, board chairman and retired president of Gimbel Bros. Inc. (Gimbel Bros, and Saks, seven department stores in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh); of bronchial pneumonia, after several years paralysis; at "Chieftains," his Port Chester, N. Y. home. Born in Vincennes, Ind., son of a Bavarian immigrant storekeeper, he grew up in the business, ran many a store with his father and his brother Jacob. Opening the Manhattan store in 1910, he succeeded President Jacob ("The Judge") Gimbel at his death in 1922, merged the business with Saks & Co. in 1923. He retired...
...nearest farm, only three-quarters of a mile away. In a drift three miles away was found Carl Miller's corpse. Two more of the children died that night. Bryan Untiedt's eight-year-old brother Orlo and the driver's daughter Mary. All the rest had pneumonia. Both Bryan Untiedt's arms and both his legs looked as though they must be amputated...