[PW] obit for Julius H. Block (1858-1934)?

[Winters, Murl]

Death records type of data appear to be available here:
Jean-Luc Aubert > Généalogie en Suisse romande > Informations ...The birth records of all the brothers and sisters of the said person as well as the death records of those who died before the age of eight years. ...
www.unige.ch/biblio/ses/jla/gen/pratique00.html  - 2k - Cached - Similar pages 
I used +site:ch + death +records  as a search string in Google.com. This limited it to a place in Switzerland that has death records. 
Murl Winters
Associate Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802

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Subject: [PW] obit for Julius H. Block (1858-1934)?

Hi,

  In researching the life of Julius Block, I see precious little of him 
anywhere. There was just a related article in the New York Times in Aug 1979 (by 
Harold Schonberg), but no death notice, etc.

  Block was born in Natal, South Africa, but mainly grew up in Russia, NY, 
and London. He claimed to be the first person to introduce - into Russia - the 
following inventions: the bicycle (1879), the typewriter (1885), and the 
phonograph (1889).

  He was friends with Tchaikovsky and other music notables, but finally lost 
his business there as a result of the Revolution (1917).

   According to his private Memoir ('Mortals and Immortals'), he died in 
Switzerland in 1934, but no mention of a month or day.

  Does anyone know if such can be determined, or if an obituary exists 
anywhere?

Thanks!

Allen
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