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Foxhall Keene, son of James R. Keene, who died early yesterday morning, as printed in the later editions of The Times, after undergoing an operation for an acute stomach ailment at Miss Alston's House for
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winners but at a time when transporting horses south to other racetracks via railroad was a long, costly, and often risky venture, he never entered his horses in the
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cost him everything he owned, leaving him with nothing but heavy debts. He began a remarkable comeback a few years later after being hired by Wall Street investor
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would have charge of the funeral services to be held on Monday morning at 10 o'clock at Grace
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and a daughter, Jessica. Sara Keene died in 1916 and is interred in
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