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Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...
...genius who, sometime in the 1860's, gave the Barbary Coast its apt title. The district then was already famed since the beginning of the Gold Rush as "Sydney Town"-named for the Australian ruffians, escaped convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average...
...earliest contributor to be a graduate was Edward Everett Hale, Class of 1811, later president of the College, who in 1852 wrote a 40,000 word article on "George Washington" for the eighth edition. The first edition appearing in 1768 describes Cambridge as "a town, about three miles west of Boston; remarkable for a university consisting of three colleges." Since 1870 when 75 Americans contributed, of whom 21 were Harvard men, the influence of this continent has increased so that now the Encyclopedia business is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company, although the offices of the editor-in-chief...
Contrary to previous reports, officials of the Cambridge banks announced yesterday that the banks here would not be fully open until tomorrow at the earliest. They will be open in the meantime, however, to receive deposits and, in accordance with the regulations imposed by the State authorities, to pay private depositors not more than $10 for necessities, and employers not more than $25 per employee for payrolls. The banks, it was stated, will open in the next few days, along the following plan which has been instituted by the federal government: Today the federal reserve banks and those banks which...
...threatened with a "taxpayer's filibuster" by Maryland's Tydings who demanded a 25% cut in all appropriations, as promised in the Democratic platform. Democratic leaders induced him to drop his fight on the formal promise that "appropriations shall be reduced at the earliest practicable time to a sum equal to estimated revenues...