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Married. Colonel George T. Langhorne, U. S. A., veteran of the Spanish War and onetime assistant to the late Major General Leonard Wood; to Miss Mary K. Waller, of Chicago; at Cliveden, England, the home of Nancy Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, cousin of Colonel Langhorne...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
George Huntington Hartford, a "down-easter" born at Augusta, Me., went to Manhattan before the Civil War and there operated a modest hide and leather business from his store on Vesey street. A neighboring store keeper, one Gilman from Bridgeport, Conn., was in the spice and tea business, and in 1859 the first Hartford went to work for Gilman as store manager. Gilman soon withdrew from the business. He had a peculiarity that doubtless was most trying to Hartford. He feared death so terribly that he would endure near him no mirrors in which he might note the shriveling...
...management the spice and tea business prospered and in 1864 he organized it as the Great American Tea Co. The idea of neighborhood stores came to him. Promptly he opened such stores in scattered parts of New York and Brooklyn and by the end of the Civil War he had several doing well...
HEAVY LADEN-Philip Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). The Rev. Hugh McGreggor, lion of the Lord, cleaned up a saloon-ridden Ohio town, survived two flesh-and-blood wives and one great War, and reaped as reward a luxurious country-club parish in the "Gilt-edged suburb of America." His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt. But Ann, his modernist daughter, suspected him of puritanical hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life...