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...Tacoma, Wash., May 28--A contact with the kidnapers of George Weyerhaeuser--or even his safe return--was confidently expected momentarily by the family tonight as it gathered once more in the living room of the stately dwelling overlooking Puget Sound...
Died. John Philip Weyerhaeuser, 76, president of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., eldest son of Founder Frederick Weyerhaeuser who built it up to be leader in the $10,000,000,000 U. S. lumber industry; of pneumonia; in Tacoma, Wash...
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Last week Ca-Choo Club's Supreme Sneezer L. E. Harris heard of a rival, George R. Pilant of Tacoma, Wash., whose wife reported: "He sneezed in Kansas and caused a team of horses to run away. He sneezed in Washington and caused the driver of the auto to disjoint his neck. He sneezed during a rummy game, causing a fellow who was just about to rummy to jump off his chair and throw his cards away. On that sneeze Mr. Pilant tore out both his tonsils...
Fortnight ago Federal Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins privately asked Dr. Lewis Andrew Hopkins of Tacoma, Wash., his eldest brother, how it happened that he was running for nomination as coroner of Pierce County on the Republican ticket. Last week Brother Lewis stopped celebrating his nomination long enough to answer publicly: "Why, the only other political job Harry ever had was under a Republican Administration. That was when he was in charge of widows' pensions in the City of New York under John Purroy Mitchel. I just wanted to be in a position to give Harry...