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Died. William Sidney Rossiter, 67, census expert, president since 1916 of the Rumford Press;* of heart disease; at Concord...
...amusing story of Dunster's presidency was handed down for two centuries among his descendants. The President was at Concord, visiting his relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil...
...part of the permanent exhibition is of framed photographs, such as those of locomotives, stations, a Camden and Amboy engine with driving wheels nine feet in diameter and a smoke-stack ten feet high, and special train of flat cars carrying a consignment of 30 horse-drawn coaches from Concord, N. H. to Omaha, Nebraska...
Foster Stone Davis, of Concord...
James Southworth ("Jim") Parker used to teach at St. Paul's School (Concord, N. H.). In 1898 he went to farming, in Salem, N. Y. His neighbours saw he had "book learnin' " and sent him to the legislature, then Congress (in 1913). He wears square-cut clothes, stutters a little, reads studiously. As chairman of the Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee he supervises much intricate legislation and shares with Cheesemaker Snell in commanding the Republican half of New York's big delegation...