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...proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
Mainspring in the promotion of Narragansett was a onetime Rhode Island mill operator named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought the 130 acres on which the track is built from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper named John F. Letendre for $150,000. Promoter O'Hara gets $75,000 a year as managing director of the track, holds 142,000 of the 350,000 shares of common stock which...
Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated...
...roads. The city's first fire department; how he founded the circulating library, a new kind of stove, and the American Philosophical Society. His missions to England were exceedingly fruitful; his mistress in France one of the most beautiful women of the era; his gout and his gall stones and a fall down the stairs led to his death. Then again there was the Saturday Evening Post...
...loans while money experts were raising their eyebrows at the company's shaky capital structure. Last March when Treasurer Hutchinson raised $25,000.000 at the phenomenally low interest rate of 2.65%, Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank, having heard that Mr. Hutchinson's gall bladder had been removed, was said to have remarked: "All I can say is that they didn...