Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City. Mo., a nicely dressed gentleman entered the Catholic Cathedral. He was Henry J. Schepers. a bill collector. He knelt in prayer in a rear pew. Then, still kneeling, he drew a pistol from his pocket and blew a hole through his head. The bullet pierced a stained glass window with the gleaming legend THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE. The bullet hole made a period for the sentence...
Died. J. Louis Webb, 73, Manhattan connoisseur, art collector, huntsman, fisherman, uncle of famed Poloist J. Watson Webb, son of late Editor James Watson Webb (New York Courier & Enquirer, 1827-61), grandson of Brig. Gen. Samuel Blatchley Webb, of George Washington's Army; in Manhattan...
...clothes which they do not need are requested to hand them in to the student in their entry who is collecting for the P. B. H. These clothes are given to needy students in the college and to various settlement houses in Cambridge. If any student cannot find the collector in his entry he can obtain the information by calling the Phillips Brooks House...
...Herter regained her smile. Mr. Herter was not so cheerful, especially when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...
Sharp contrasts are William H. Woodin, head of the American Locomotive Co., and Samuel M. Vauclain, head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Mr. Woodin has probably the finest collection of American gold pieces in the world, has written authoritatively on numismatics. A collector of rare books, he especially prizes a volume which contains signatures of most of the Popes of Rome. A present hobby is the collection of originals of newspaper cartoons. Mr. Woodin plays little golf; seldom uses his costly yacht. He is a graduate of Columbia (school of mines, 1890) and an Alpha Delta Phi, was Fuel Administrator...