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...Prince & Whitely, Manhattan brokers, opened a branch office in the old Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C., engaged the first private wire from the Capitol to Manhattan. On July 2, 1881, this wire was used to flash word of President James A. Garfield's assassination, giving Prince & Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile...
Died. Mrs. Helen Howell Garfield, 64, wife of James Rudolph Garfield of Cleveland who was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, daughter-in-law of the late President James Abram Garfield; as the result of injuries received when, motoring through Portsmouth, N. H., a tire of Mr. Garfield's car blew out and they hit a telegraph pole...
...Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College, and Mrs. Garfield went for their first airplane ride, soared over the Berkshire Hills. Their pilot: Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a speaker at the Williamstown Institute of Politics...
Most laymen working to help the deaf are themselves hard of hearing. They include Starling Winston Childs, Manhattan banker; Adolph Bloch, Manhattan corporation lawyer; Norman Fraser, Chicago, retired; Mr. Justice A. Rives Hall, Montreal; Judge Simon Bass, St. Louis; Mrs. James Flack Norris, Boston; Mrs. James Rudolph Garfield, Cleveland daughter-in-law of the late President, wife of the 1907-09 Secretary of Interior. Also a worker for deaf people, though not herself aurally inefficient, is Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...
Last week on narrow Lake Windermere, England, he took out his new boat Miss England II, an improvement on Miss England in which he beat Garfield A. Wood in Miami last year. Miss England II was de-signed by F. Cooper and built by Saunders Roe, Ltd., of Cowes. She had two Rolls-Royce engines of 2,000 h. p. each, made of a new aluminum alloy called hiduminium. "Well, now for it," said Segrave. "She's chewed up three propellers. I'm trying a bronze...