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Died. Edwin Prescott Grosvenor, 54, Manhattan lawyer (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft), cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
Died. Alexander Pollock Moore, 62, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Poland; at Los Angeles: of bronchial pneumonia. A native Pittsburghian, he rose from copy boy and reporter to be at various times editor of the Pittsburgh Press, the Pittsburgh Leader. In 1912 he married Beauty Lillian Russell, was devoted to her until her death in, 1921. In 1928 he purchased the New York Daily Mirror (tabloid), sold it six months later. At his deathbed was Cinemactress Marion Davies, whose ranch he had been visiting...
...water, after ten in the evening appears and disappears apparently at will. Anyone inclined to shower as late as ten-thirty does so at his own risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles...
...Puget Island in the Columbia River 70 mi. from Portland, a child was at the crisis of pneumonia. Three other children and two women had influenza. Boats could not reach them through the crazy river ice. Dr. Ernest Lloyd Boylen, 32, of Portland, flew to them at night in a plane, made a precarious landing in the flares of torches and bonfires the island fishermen...
Died. Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, 94, oldtime Georgia feminist, only woman ever appointed to the Senate (she held an ad interim appointment for 22 hours in 1922); in Atlanta; of pneumonia...