Famous Financier Dying Jay Cooke Nearing End
The prominent financier Jay Cooke lies critically ill at his summer home on Put-in-Bay Lake Erie. Born in Sandusky Ohio eighty years ago he rose from village clerk to founder of major banks and railroad finance before a 1873 panic wiped out much of his fortune. He has four children.
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Jay Cooke
Put-in- Bay
Lake Erie
Sandusky
Francis Cooke
May- Hower
Plymouth
Mass
Ohio
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Depew Bride to Be to Marry Milas Palmer in Paris
Senator Chauncey M Depew announced plans for his marriage to Milas May Palmer in Paris with a date not yet set. Palmer, daughter of Mrs Henry Palmer of the Hermann sisters fame, has lived abroad and is little known in New York.
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Depew
Chauncey M. Depew
Milas May Palmer
Paria
Miss Palmer
Henry Palmer
Hermann
New Orleans
New York
Tolatol the 45 active mind in Tolatol’s park tour
A French visitor reports Count Tolatol as a 45 year old man of active mind and body. He walks briskly in his park wearing a large white linen hat, then returns to his desk for hours of work. He eats with the family at midday and relies on secretaries to copy and transcribe his manuscripts. Nicholas Gay, painter’s son, assists in the afternoon with transcription of morning writing.
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Golsto
Yrsnaia Polfana aMflory
Tolatol
Nicholas Gay
Fragmented Early 20th Century Notices and Ad Snippets
A collage of items including estate notes for George N. Kennedy noting over $690 000 value with charities and Syracuse University bequests, scattered ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and a LeRoy mail order, a senator marriage rumor, a Civil War brigadier general’s career, a ransom figure for Miss Stone, Garfeld Ten liver medicine promotion, and a London American society dinner for Sir Thomas Lipton.
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Paif
George N. Kennedy
Supreme Court
Maryland
Syracuse University
Miss Stone
Bulgaria
Brooklyn
M. D
Garfeld
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