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...expressions of esteem from its employes were its only diet, the steel industry would have been on starvation rations for years. The late Judge Elbert Gary gave his name to a city, but never during his lifetime was that hard-bitten old steelmaster honored by workers marching behind brass bands. Last week four little towns in the Allegheny Valley closed shop & school to turn out in personal tribute to the 75-year-old president of their local steel company, Allegheny Steel's Harry E. Sheldon. It was Constitution Day for the rest of the U. S., but for Tarentum...
Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard...
Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.) Ex-Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle of Virginia...................... LL.D...
...Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side in his revolt against Spain and to discover the strength of the rival armies, Rowan did so after...
When Representative Dunn paused, Rev. Henry Elbert Stubbs, Representative from Santa Barbara, Calif., leaped to his feet. "This may not be strictly in order," he declared, "but if there are 100 Congressmen here who feel as I do, I would like them to stand with me each to give $1 to this family...