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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...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: White Rock | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL WORKERS MEET TONIGHT | 1/9/1919 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUB TRIALS THURSDAY | 2/19/1918 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINCHESTER CONCERT TONIGHT | 2/15/1918 | See Source »

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