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...96th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Glasgow last week, was a grand concourse of ideas on chemistry, physics, psychology, mathematics, geology. So specialized and abstruse were most of the papers read in 13 sectional meetings that the 3,000 scientists attending (from all the continents) were eager to get the Glasgow newspapers for popularized reports of what was happening in fields other than their own. However there was a strong thread of thought running through all the discussions: the application of science in industry...
...been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal. He refused. The Archbishopric of York...
...William A. Goodhart, attorneys of New York and Baltimore, with Deputy Marshal Pinkley of New York, left by the Olympic, their destination the new Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal. On their testimony will rest, in part, the fate of Oscar Slater, who did or did not murder a Glasgow woman named Gilchrist, 20 years...
Therefore Mr. Ford caused deep disappointment in Europe last week, when he declared that he will not set foot upon the Continent itself but will spend a month in England, Scotland and Ireland, visiting his factories at London, Glasgow and Cork. Pinioned by reporters, he admitted that his plants now produce daily 1700 automobiles and 1½ airplanes. Said he, "This year will be the greatest the automotive industry has ever known...
...late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...