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Died. Congressman Harry I. Thayer of the 8th Massachusetts District, 56, noted leather industrialist arid a former President of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; at Wakefield, Mass...
...events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into...
Nearly as noisy yet more circus-like was the "Parade of Warning," advertised similarly by "The Famous Welsh Evangelists, Clark and Bell." The "parade" was to start from the Gospel Tabernacle at 44th St. and 8th Ave., and in circus similitude proceed therefrom "to 34th St.; thence to 59th St. via 7th Ave. and Broadway, returning to 44th St. by 8th Ave. Bring your autos or come on foot...
Mitchell Arrives. Colonel William Mitchell, relieved of duty as Air Officer of the 8th Corps Area and ordered to Washington because he was one of those whom the Air Board wished to examine, telegraphed the War Department for permission to take with him 800 pounds of documents on aviation. The usual baggage allowance...
...Parsees constitute a sect in India who are followers of Zoroaster. They are descendants of ancient Persians who migrated to India in the 8th Century. They are one of the more advanced of India's numerous racial and religious minorities...