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Source: El Paso Herald Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Niece Pawns the Gift of McKinley” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: El Paso, Texas Date of publication: 4 February 1913 Volume number: none Issue number: none Pagination: 9 |
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| “Niece Pawns the Gift of McKinley.” El Paso Herald 4 Feb. 1913: p. 9. |
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| Mabel McKinley Baer. |
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| Hermanus L. Baer; Mabel McKinley Baer; William McKinley. |
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| The article is accompanied on the same page with a photograph of Mabel McKinley Baer. |
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Niece Pawns the Gift of McKinley
New York, N. Y., Feb. 4.—A storm of unfavorable criticism has been aroused as a result of the discovery of one of the most treasured possessions of the late president McKinley, a solid gold plate bearing an invitation to a Knights Templars assembly in San Francisco, resting in the window of a Broadway pawnshop. The plate recently was the property of Miss Mabel McKinley, a favorite niece of the martyred president, who, at his death, received the plate and other relics and $130,000. She is a vaudeville actress and the wife of Dr. Hermanus Baer, who explained that the plate was sold for $700 because of the fear that it would be stolen.