In Toronto, Ont., in 1926, died Charles Vance Millar, rich, fun-loving bachelor who had accumulated a fortune in real estate, horse breeding, mining, brewing. His will provided: $10,000 to a friend whom he had once bested in a business deal; a small sum to a priest to say masses for another friend "who will need them wherever he is"; one share of brewery stock to every Orange Lodge and every active Protestant minister in Toronto, except "one Spracklin, who shot a hotel keeper" in an enforcement raid (when Ontario was Dry); one...
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