Milestones: Jul. 16, 1928
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Died. Mgr. Count Francis Browning Drew Bickerstaffe-Drew, 70, famed Catholic prelate, author (Rosemary, A Roman Tragedy, etc., written under the name of John Ayscough), private Chamberlain in 1891 to Pope Leo XIII, and to Pius X in 1903, four times decorated for service as a War chaplain; in Salisbury, England.
Died. George Earle Chamberlain, 74, onetime Senator from Oregon (1909-21), Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee during the World War, later member of the U. S. Shipping Board; at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D. C.; after a long illness.
Died. Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard, 83; of heart disease; at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. (see p. 12).
Died. Naylor Harrison, 85, "king of the Romany Gypsies," reputed millionaire, famed honest horse dealer, in Morristown, N. J. Hundreds of gypsies came to the funeral, valuable antiques were burned upon his bier. Madame Harrison, palmist, denied that her husband had been a gypsy, "It's a pasell of lies," she said.
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