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Show JOHN WANAMAKER DENIES HE IS DEAD ! PHILADELPHIA Pa Jan. 6. John Wanamaker today laughed away I the report from the south that he wait dead SlttinK In hla office on the eventh floor i bis store being en-; gaged In a Conference, when ha was appraised of the report, the former postmaster general said: "f am as well an you are. There Is nothing wrong with me but a Sllffnl cold. 1 received a letter today making an engagement for 192G." Mr. VVannmaker, who g In his tlghtyfpurth year, w.is curious to know where the report came from. "If the report of my death Is to be sent from Florida, i will slay away from there," he salcV. MIAMI. Fla.. Jan. C Whitney "Wesley "Wes-ley Wanamaker, a Jr-outh Carolina planter, died nt a local hotel here Thursday and thi rrornlng the undertaker under-taker In charge of his body an- bounced the death or John (Vana- maker. the merehnni and former' postmitster general. |