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...Florence, Italy, in a chamber of the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio is supposed to have spun out his ingenious Decameron, an old gentleman lay very sick abed. Seventy-five years were on his back. On his chest there was bronchial pneumonia. On his heart, heavier than years or sickness, there was black despair...
Died. James W. Ellsworth, 76, financier of the Amundsen flight and father of Lincoln Ellsworth, com-mander of one of the planes in that flight; in Florence, Italy, of bronchial pneumonia (see SCIENCE...
Died. Giorgio Calvi di Bergolo, Prince of Montemagno, 6 days old, only grandson of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, son of Princess Yolanda, the King's eldest daughter, and Count Calvi di Bergolo; in Pinerolo, Italy, of bronchial pneumonia...
Died. William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme, 74, British soap man; in London, of pneumonia (see BUSINESS...
Died. J. Brandt Walker, 60, brilliant speculator in the Manhattan and Chicago markets 17 years ago; in Atlantic City, of pneumonia. Credited with having made some ten million dollars in stocks and grain, he lost most of it, died a relatively poor...