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Show Duke Will Is Probated New York Bequest of $10,000,000 to be administered by the Duke endowment en-dowment was made in the will of the late James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, in his will filed for probate at Som-erville, Som-erville, N. J. The will, directed that $4,000,000 of the $10,000,000 bequest should go for the construction and equipment of a medical school hospital hospi-tal and nurses' home at Duke university univer-sity at Durham, N. C. The will does not reveal the total value of the Duke estate, which has been variously estimated esti-mated at sums as high as $150,000,000. The will gave Mrs. Nanaline H. Duke for life the Duke Fifth avenue property, prop-erty, "Rough Point," at Newport, R. I., and Lynnewood, at Meyers Park, N". C. The same property goes to Mr. Duke's daughter, Doris, at the death of her mother. The Duke Farms company, com-pany, a New Jersey corporation, was ordered dissolved and the funds realized real-ized to be distributed to the shareholders. share-holders. The executors of the Duke estate were given the proceeds of shares in the Duke Farms company owned by Mr. Duke. |