Word: probasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERBERT W. PROBASCO...
...Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco was "very Grande Dame." The Hinkle box was "a scene of constant va et vient." Mrs. E. W. Edwards' daughter was missed but "she, of course, is not going out if, any large way at present...
...cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve S. J. Res. 21, President Roosevelt sign it and the Robert Ingersoll Monument Association (headed by his daughter Mrs. Maud Ingersoll Probasco) raise another $10,000 or $12,000. Then will follow the choice of a site in Washington. According to the Senate resolution that site will be on Government land, but not on the grounds of 1) the Capitol, 2) the Library of Congress, 3) the Mall, 4) the White House...
Buried. The ashes of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll, famed agnostic who died in 1899, and Mrs. Ingersoll; in Arlington National Cemetery; transferred after 33 years from the mantel piece of Daughter Maud R. Ingersoll Probasco's New York apartment. He served in the Civil War with the 11th Illinois Cavalry. In a funeral oration he once said: "We know not whether the grave is the end of this life or the door to another; whether if this existence is our night time there is not somewhere else a dawn. Every cradle asks us 'Whence?' And every coffin...