Word: pneumonia
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Died. Mabel Cratty, 60, secretary of the national board of the Young Women's Christian Association since its formation in 1906; in Manhattan; of pneumonia...
Died. Edward Burgess Butler, 74, retired millionaire owner and founder of Butler Brothers (wholesale drygoods with warehouses in Chicago, New York, St. Louis), amateur painter; in Pasadena, Calif.; of pneumonia...
Died. Max Hart, 75, vice president and one of the founders of Hart, Schaffner & Marx ("correct styles"); of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...Lily Eberhard Anheuser Busch, 83, widow of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker whose factories covered 70 city blocks; onetime mistress of a kolossal castle at Langenschwalbach, Prussia; owner of the magnificent Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., where the admission fees flow into the treasury of the American Legion; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif. Kolossal were the parties at Langenschwalbach, where servants served barbecues with spades and pitchforks, where the Kaiser feasted, where entire hotels were hired to accommodate guests...
Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...