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Engaged. Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, famed 8-goal poloist; and Helena Woolworth McCann, socialite granddaughter of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth, 5?-&-10? store tycoon...
Spring Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore...
...missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager of Woolworth's in England. G. H. Wilson, Golden Miller's jockey, is a Canadian, champion British gentleman jockey with 61 victories last year...
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Died, Frank Ellis Campbell. 61, famed Manhattan undertaker, director of the funerals of Rudolph Valentino, Jeanne Eagels, Oscar Hammerstein. William Dean Howells, Anna Held, Yernon Castle, Frank W. Woolworth, Texas Guinan, Fatty Arbuckle, Francesco de Pinedo and many another celebrity; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Illinois, he sawed casket lumber for a local undertaker, went to Manhattan with no money, plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs...