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Show WOMAN HAD KICK COMING. Portrait of Temperance Advocate Used as Part of Whiskey Ad. Washington. The case of Elizabeth Peck vs. the Chicago Tribune company, com-pany, involving a charge of libel by Mrs. Peck against the Tribune because be-cause of the publication of her portrait por-trait as part of an advertisement indorsing in-dorsing a certain brand of whiskey, has been decided by the supreme court of the United States in favor of Mrs. Peck against the company. Justice Jus-tice Holmes announced the- decision ,of the court. It appeared front the record in the case that Mrs. Peck was a resident of Iowa and a. temperance advocate. Her picture was printed over another name. that, of a nurse, and she was quoted in strong endorsement of whiskey. Noted Novelist Dead. London. George Meredith, the English novelist, died May 18, the immediate im-mediate cause of death being heart failure, following an illness which began be-gan several days previous. George Meredith was born in Hampshire,' February 12, 1S2S. On the occasion pf his eightieth birthday he was showered with congratulations from all parts of the world and was visited by deputation headed by Anthony Hope and presented with an address signed by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Swin-burne. Thomas Hardy, John Morley, and more than a hundred leaders in art, letters and scholarship. Mr. Meredith's Mer-edith's first "poems" appeared in 1851. |