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Harvard's President Felton was once superintendent of the Farm and Trades School on Thompson's Island. The revenues from Bumkin Island used to reach the Pockets of the President and Fellows; the annual income cannot have been much for the whole island was worth less than $1500 during its gaudiest epoch...
...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
Previous to this meeting, W. H. Shiner '18 will lead the first conference of a discussion group devoted to social welfare in the Noble Room at 7 o'clock. Mr. Shiner was for some time a Y. M. C. A. service as a secretary at Bumkin Island. The group will follow the methods pursued by last year's groups but will consider more especially welfare problems...
...schedule of trips has been arranged for the University Musical Clubs for the coming half-year. Concerts will be given, according to present plans, at Chestnut Hill, Newton, Lowell, Norwood, Ayer, Bumkin Island and Hyde Park...
...unusually extensive schedule of trips has been arranged for the Musical Clubs for the half-year. According to present announcements, concerts are to be held at Winchester, Chestnut Hill, Newton, Lowell, Norwood, Ayer, Bumkin Island and Hyde Park...