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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
3
The three year old heir of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Margaret Emerson will share in an estate estimated between 50 million and 71 million dollars left by his father, one of the Lusitania victims. The boy’s mother is Margaret Emerson of Baltimore.
A Melbourne dispatch to the Sydney Herald notes scarce safety matches as stock dwindles in Australia. Prices reportedly rise 133 percent wholesale while wartime procurement remains tight. The cause is said to be English regulations forcing a factory near the Thames estuary to show no lights at night, cutting output to one third.
A kind old lady asks if No 777,444 has friends visit, and he replies that none come because they are all with him. The exchange reveals a somber moment behind bars and hints at deep personal significance tied to his companionship.
The famed French composer and first delegate of the Franco American commission lands in New York at eighty years old. He expresses joy at revisiting the United States and plans extensive entertainments by French societies in cities across a three month stay.
A Carnegie Institute study by Benedict and Eames explains men require slightly more nourishment than women. It finds women have less active tissue and more fat, with averages of 1355 heat units per day for women versus 1638 for men, about 12 percent more per comparable weight groups.
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