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Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
...Bayes Norton, onetime Yale man now at Oxford. But other worsteds, stretched for races of 220, 440 and 880 yards, were soon broken by Runkel of Cambridge and Brown of Oxford, Runkel winning the 220 and 440 events in quick succession. White of Oxford won the one-mile run. Weightman Smith and Lord David Burghley of Cambridge left their guests clumping behind in the 120-yard high and 220-yard low hurdle races, respectively. All that the Yale-Harvards could do was win the three-mile run, the shot-put, broad jump and pole vault. Two Cantabs out-leaped Wolf...
...Crimson foilsmen completely outclassed the University of Pennsylvania fencing team by a 9-0 score on Saturday. The contest took place at Weightman Hall Philadelphia...
...Roberts '16, the University's only entrant in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival yesterday, showed up well, winning third place in throwing the 56-pound weight and second place in the hammer throw. Brown, the recently discovered Yale "crack" weightman, failed to place in the hammer throw because of fouling...
...trustees of the Pa. Museum and School for Industrial Art have been offered $100,000 for the purchase of certain buildings, on the condition that a like sum shall be raised by the trustees. The giver is said to be William Weightman of Philadelphia...