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Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan...
Died, Ethel King Wallace, 36, relict of Thriller-Writer Edgar Wallace; of influenza; in London...
Died. Henriette Tower Wurts, relict of George Washington Wurts, onetime (1862-82) U. S. Secretary of Legation at Florence and Rome, sister of onetime (1902-08) U. S. Ambassador to Germany Charlemagne Tower; in Lucerne. An aging, dim, tremendously "important" personage in Roman society, she gave the city her magnificently landscaped Villa Sciarra in 1930 for use as a public park. That was soon after energetic, beauteous Mrs. John Work Garrett (who last week lectured on art before the King & Queen) had arrived in Rome, begun to displace other U. S. social arbiters. The handsome call Benito Mussolini made...
Died. Blanche Richel Doumer, 72, relict of President Paul Doumer of France; after long prostration over his assassination last May; in Paris...
...Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...