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...Illinois Merchants Trust Co. Last week, on the walls of his bank, in gold letters several feet high, he set up a creed. The mural apothegms were none of them original, but they added no mean lustre to the commemoration of Banker Mitchell's 72nd birthday, his 52nd year in banking. They ran as follows...
...President celebrated the beginning of the 52nd year of his life by signing an economy measure for the Mexican railways, the chief point of which is the gradual dismissal of 14,000 employes. "No strikes," warned Senor Calles...
...Springfield, Mass., amateur oarsmen stripped off their clothes, put their shells in the Connecticut River, stepped their sweeps, held the 52nd national amateur rowing regatta. When they unstepped their sweeps, lifted out their shells, put on their clothes, the Bachelors' Barge Club of Philadelphia had won the Barnes trophy for the club championship...
...favorite sons: Ferris of Michigan dropped out on the 8th ballot; Silzer of New Jersey, on the 9th; Harrison of Mississippi, on the 15th; Brown of New Hampshire, on the 16th; Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, on the 20th, al- though he got a handful of votes from the 52nd on; Davis of Kansas dwindled out on the 51st; Cox of Ohio practically disappeared on the 65th; Ralston, after making a brave run in the 50's, dropped out for a time. Seventeen states never altered their vote during the entire first six days of balloting: California, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa...
...order to make his plan workable, the Foundation has acquired a large stone-front building on East 52nd St., Manhattan, between fashionable Madison Ave. and exclusive Park Ave. Advanced musical education?supervised? is to be the slogan of the organization. It aims to be, in time, a novel variety of National conservatory of music: one which gives no stated courses and grants no degrees, but one in which those who really deserve advanced instruction in composition, voice-culture, wind-instrument and piano playing will be given the benefit of a rigorous Winter's training. Instructors and students alike will...