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...Women's Republican Club sponsors an officers' dance every Saturday at the Sherry Room of their club at 46 Beacon Street, Boston...
...noon the news had reached Oklahoma City, 35 miles north. In front of the 33-story First National Bank building, Bill Brannan spread it as he hawked his papers to the leasehounds who make their fairweather "offices" around his newsstand. Atop the building, in the swank Beacon Club, the talk of better heeled oilmen was the same: "Carter brings in new pool . . . she's bubbling out of the hole right now." For the Cottingham mud had tested 50% good crude, 50% mud and drilling water-no salt. By week's end the new well flowed at the rate...
...Album provides an answer. Among the knickknacks and decorations of life, the pots and kettles and meat barrels, there were the objects which testified to the sense of constant danger and the sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange and exotic, the trees...
...Also publisher in Illinois of the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Joliet Herald News, Springfield Illinois State Journal; for six terms (1911-23) an Illinois GOP Congressman, long a utilitycoon...
...paradoxical reason for sending children to private prep schools was offered last week to a Manhattan conference of headmasters and headmistresses. In clipped Massachusetts accents, CBS Newscaster Quincy Howe, an alumnus of Newport's swank St. George's School and son of Beacon Hill Biographer Mark A. De Wolfe Howe, declared...