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Frederick W. Lane, Jr. of Tacoma, Raymond J. Langebach of Spokane, Gibson B. Clay of Seattle...
...Drexel, but he found time, at the behest of Emma Bouvier, his French second wife, to embrace Roman Catholicism and to bring up his daughters Elizabeth, "Kate," and Louise in quiet piety. Small Daughter Kate he took to see the Pope, and in the early 1880's to Tacoma, Wash, where she secretly gave $100 from her dress allowance for a statue of the Blessed Virgin in an Indian mission. In trepidation she confessed, but her father approved, in a manner quite unlike that of the bad Victorian father of Elsie Dinsmore. In 1883 Banker Drexel died, leaving Kate...
...last week to handle an avalanche of messages for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. People all over the land were excited because he had regretfully abandoned the Cause which he and his father & mother had supported with speech, prayer and at least $434,000. From Tarrytown to Tallahassee and Tacoma the news had flashed when he publicly endorsed Nicholas Murray Butler's call for out-&-out repeal of Prohibition (TIME, June...
...Elizabeth Short 809 South 39 St. Tacoma, Wash...
...need hardly tell you that this statement, appearing in your magazine even as a quotation, will do untold hurt to our work. The Volunteers of America are feeding 4,000 people a day in Seattle, Wash., and at least 2,000 in Tacoma. This work is supported by public donations and those who give to it will be greatly shocked by the statement appearing in Mr. Dreiser's book...