Fortune Built From Candle Biz to Charity King
Cincinnati figures the Emery fortune began with Thomas Emery and sons real estate moves alongside a candle business. Mary M Hopkins Emery inherited vast wealth after 1906 death, then gave millions to arts, medicine, education, and social causes, including Paris workers home, Cincinnati Zoo, and medical school chairs. Livingood served as executor, receiving $500,000.
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Cincinnati
Mary Muhlenberg Emery
Thomas J. Emery
Cairo
Egypt
Emery
Emery Candle Company
Thomas Emery
Vine and
Water Streets
Charles J. Livingood
Middletown
Newport
R. LL
East Walnut Hills
Ohio Mechanics Institute
Paris
Cercle Concordia
Livingood
Marismont
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati University Medical School
Christchurch
Campaig
Avondale Negro Orphan Asylum
German Envoy's Career Aided by Wife's Frankness
Berlin reports two memoir volumes recount how Prince Karl Lichnowsky benefited from his wife Princess Mechthilde's blunt honesty. Her frank remarks at a royal dinner earned the king's favor and boosted the envoy's standing in London, with George V often seeking her company at functions.
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Berlin
Karl Lichnowsky
St. James
England
Mechthilde Lichnowsky
George V
George
Queen Mary
Lichnowskys
London
George Vo
Reduce Ranks of London Pigeons About St. Pauls
London authorities plan to thin pigeon flocks at St Pauls and other public buildings. They will trap birds and hand them to the National Homing Union to reclaim ringed birds. The change comes after a long struggle with urban pigeon populations and new powers allowing nonlethal reduction.
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London
St. Paul's
Wes4
National Homing Union
Trafalgar Square
Nelson Monument
Society Women Type Out Own Invitations
London readers note a new trend as society stenographers proliferate. Hostesses now type their own invitations on embossed note paper themed to the typewriter color, with severe shades matching the scene and the season.
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London
Plant Juice Man Promotes Remedy At Wangler Drug Store
A Plant Juice campaign markets this “godsend” tonic at Wangler Drug store 229 East Fourth Waterloo. Testimonial from 77 year old P R Plummer of Taleda Ohio says appetite returned, strength restored, weight gained, bowels regulated. Free samples offered daily to the public.
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Wangler Drug Store
East Fourth Stores
Watertoo
P. R. Plummer
Stanley Court
Taleda
Ohio
Plummer
Iis
East Fourth Street
Waterloo
Dunkerton Farmer Recalls Hindenburg Era Story and American Move
Dunkerton farmer William Wetzlich, born 1857 in the Harz region, recounts meeting a young von Hindenburg during porcelain experiments near Hanover. He emigrated to America in 1880, worked as a brick mason in Cincinnati before farming in Indiana and Iowa, now owning a 240 acre farm in Lester township and preserving a Harz mountain house photo.
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Wetzlich
von Hindenburg
Emil von Niedenburg
Welsheh
von Niedenburg
Young von Hindenburg
Seventy-fourth Infantry
Hanover
America
United States
Wetalich
Cincinnati
Weigrlich
Indiana
Bremer County
Iowa
Weiglich
Lester Township
Dinkerton
Harz Mountains
Guard Unnecessary for Diamond Wealth
Diamonds in the rough idle in a Holborn viaduct area office with 150,000 pounds in uncut gems unguarded and uninsured. Burglars show little interest in such raw stones according to the report.
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London
Holborn Viaduct
Stones from British Guiana diamonds face strict cutting rules
Theses stones represent the output of the United Diamond Fields of British Guiana for six months. Diamonds must be cut before value rises and cutting must occur in Amsterdam or Antwerp where ownership is thoroughly established before reputable firms handle them. Even after cutting it is hard to sell to good firms.
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United Diamond Fields
British Guiana
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Breach of Promise Suit Seeks 20000 For Loss of Chance
LeMars Iowa November 18. Plaintiff Miss Elizabeth Lesser of Greenfield Iowa sues Fred Klingbeil a Remsen landowner for 20000 alleging breach of promise to marry. The suit alleges loss of anticipated nuptial prospects and financial damages without establishing ownership beyond doubt.
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LeMars
Elizabeth’ Lesser
Greenfield
Fred Klingbeil
Remsen
Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin touted after 47 years practice
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a mild natural remedy for constipation. It argues against drastic purges, claims the syrup is non habit forming and gentle, and offers a free sample by mail from Monticello Winds.
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Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
Dr Caldwell
Monticello
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Henry G. Hester
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
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Exchange
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Barbarossa
Joseph Brent
Patricia Herrin
Washington
Blue Hills
Maine
Brent
Herman J. Hughes
East Mount Vernon Place
Mount Vernon Place
Dunkerton Farmer
William Wetzlich
Queeurete
Standard Oil Company
Paul Davis Dry Goods Co
Natea
Lauerman
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