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Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. was organized in 1863, its first office being in the Montgomery Block, built in 1853 and still standing, being one of the very few pioneer buildings in San Francisco which have survived the march of time. We have a record of 16 brave firemen killed in the line of duty during the period of the Volunteer Fire Department. They evidently did more than breaking windows and throwing slung shots. ALBERT EDWARD CONLON Vice President Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept. San Francisco, Calif...
Starting almost from scratch, Coach Fesler has built up an organization which has captured student fancy. Large crowds turned out for a number of the games, including many who had never seen a basketball game before but who found their first experience stimulating. Today basket is sufficiently important to be accorded the recognition given to hockey and baseball...
...which extended down the river only as far as the Lars Anderson Bridge, Varsity crewmen yesterday were unable to use a new shell which had just arrived from Seattle, Washington, the gift of Chandler Hovey, whose son is a member of the sophomore class. The boat was built during the last month by George Pocock, reputedly the best shell builder in the United States, at a cost...
Odhams lately built a new printing plant of Goss high-speed color gravure presses, as used by New York's Dally News and Crowell Publishing Co. Undoubted reason for last week's purchase was that Elias was planning something extra to print on these presses though he already prints some 100 periodicals in all fields-newspapers, medical papers, trade papers. His range of publications includes such variety as the Daily Herald, with a 2,000,000 circulation, Weekly Illustrated, Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ...
...holds a big invitation pistol tournament every year and plays by ear on his $75,000 organ, President Thomas Atterbury McGinley of Duff-Norton Manufacturing Co. inaugurated a weekly nationwide organ and variety radio program to advertise the jacks he makes for heavy industry. Title: "The House That Jacks Built." Mr. McGinley composed the theme song, At Sunset. Mrs. McGinley wrote the lyrics...