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...return to it until ?as a railroad engineer in Minnesota ?he married a gentle German girl named Frieda Fromhart. But he stayed radical enough to lose his job for being a militant socialist. When he moved East to Syracuse, N.Y., with his wife and six sons???Thomas Jr., John, James, Jerome, Daniel and Philip?Tom Berrigan helped to organize the city's first electrical workers' union...
...expected to go, first to the Gay-pay-oo for third degree, then into a monster Soviet propaganda trial and finally before a firing squad Last week the Gay-pay-oo were reported to have shot his 85-year-old mother, his wife, his daughters and his sons???in addition to the 66 executions of pure Bolshevik Terror...
...influence of Canada, New Zealand and Australia? all leery of Japanese immigrants?Great Britain is no longer the formal ally of Japan. But informal relations continue close and cordial between the first and third greatest naval Powers. Last week wise Mother England sent one of her very nicest sons???downy-lipped Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V.?to bestow the Most Noble Order of the Garter on His Majesty the Emperor of Japan...
...Adairs?three generations of Washington Adair was conductor of the first railroad train that entered the city (1845). When Union troops burned the town in the Civil War, he was already doing a real estate business there; and he, as much as anyone else, helped the rebuilding. His sons??? able, active Forrest and able, quiet George?continued to trade lots. At one time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children...
Died. John Diedrich Spreckels, 72, after week of illness; at Coronado, Calif. He was the eldest son of the late Claus Spreckles, who expanded his Philadelphia grocery business to control much of the U. S. sugar trade. The sons???John Diedrich, Adolph Barnard (died 1924), Claus August (president, Federal Sugar Refining Co.) and Rudolph (spells his name "Spreckles," onetime fighter of California political corruption)?all went into the sugar business. John Diedrich. went furthest, developed the Pacific islands sugar trade, pioneered transpacific shipping to carry his products, broadened into finance, philanthropic and civic activities...