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When fire flared in a private garage next door to his Evanston (Ill.) residence, Charles Gates Dawes stomped out into bitter cold, cheered the firemen...
...found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened...
Died. Henry Justin Smith, 60, on the Chicago Daily News since 1899 (except for 1924-26, when he assisted University of Chicago's president), managing editor since 1926; of pneumonia; in Evanston, III. Under his tutelage developed many well-known newshawks, including Ben Hecht, Howard Vincent O'Brien, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Poet Carl Sandburg...
...Evanston, Ill. gathered a regional meeting of the Methodist Federation for Social Service whose executive secretary, Professor Harry Frederick Ward of Union Theological Seminary, is a prime target for Red-baiters. Because small, mild-looking Professor Ward was present, and because the meeting voted not to make its deliberations public, Chicago religious editors purposely performed marvels of Pharisaical reporting. They made much of their conclusion that "Red" literature was for sale at the meeting. Rev. John Evans of the Tribune inaccurately reported that the Federation voted to cooperate with Communists. The Conference of Methodist Laymen, whose secretary, a Chicago businessman...
...Seniors who will be inducted include Robert R. Baker of Evanston, Illinois, Edward L. Bassett of Marble-head, Simon M. Bessie of New York City, Bernard D. Davis of Franklin, George S. Franklin of New York City, Bernard German of Newark, August C. Helmholz of Rochester, Minnesota; Andrew Kacmarcyk of Brooklyn; Philip E. Lilienthal of New York City; Douglas T. McClay of Dorchester; edward Meilman of Roxbury; Herman E. Schroeder of Brooklyn; Richard E. Voland of New Rochelle, New York; Harold P. Welch of Winchendon; Francis J. Whitefield of Springfield; and Harold Winkler of Lawrence...