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...March 1876, two young scientists worked hard, fast and eagerly in their shop in a Boston boardinghouse attic. One was Thomas Augustus Watson. The other was Alexander Graham Bell. Following Bell's instructions Watson had constructed the first crude telephone, but the results were disappointing. Sounds came over the wire, but no intelligible words...
Frederick Augustus Webster...
...James Augustus Carr...
...COLONEL LINDBERG ARRIVING ON DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
Those added are as follows: for the Album Committee, James Edward Downes, Richard King Thorndike, Jr., and Lucius Townshend Wing; for Permanent Class Committee, Donald Scott Carmichael, Joseph Lynch Hoguet, Jr., and George Francis McInnes; for Class Day Committee, Carlisle Abell, Clement Alden Briggs, James Augustus Carr, Lawrence Edward Corcoran, Joseph James Gianino, Frank Warren Knowlton, Jr., Sears Lehman, Jr., Irving Myron Madoff, Sumner Rodman, and Henry Bower White...