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Master of the strongbox is Albert William Benham. For 20 years Citizen Benham worked for National Sewing Machine Co., lived in a modest home. He is a fat, jolly, robust man now going on 46. Recently he mortgaged his home and that of a friend for $4,000. Nobody paid much attention. A lot of people are mortgaging things these days. Then suddenly Citizen Benham zoomed to fame. From a few friends Mr. Benham solicited funds to be invested. Soon he was inviting all Belvidere and nearby cities to give him money. His terms: profits of from...
Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...
...current number of the Saturday Evening Post there is a story about, the 'Marquis of Benham' who has an unmarried sister by the name of 'Lady Stanwick' and a daughter entitled 'the Honourable Alicia...
...Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother. If her brother is a marquis, though, she cannot be Lady Stanwick. She would be Lady Mary Benham (if that is supposed to be the family name). And the daughter could not be the Hon. Alicia. She would, of course, be Lady Alicia...
...learn more of the System's non-technical field of activities. The interviews will be held in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House from 10 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The men who will hold these conferences are Mr. F. A. Benham of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. E. G. Anderson of the New York Telephone Company and Mr. D. S. Bridgeman. Appointments for these conferences may be made immediately after the talk tonight. Representatives from the technical fields of the Bell System will visit the Engineering School...