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About a month ago Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer, tycoon and owner of the New York "Yankees," estimated that all in all the brewing industry would spend some $200,000,000 in rehabilitation, if & when. His own company's requirements, he said, would be $5,000,000. Ready to board the beer wagon last week was Louis J. Ehret, son af the late Brewer George Ehret. He incorporated a new George Ehret Brewing Co., to be all ready...
...General" Jacob Sechler Coxey landed in Washington with his "army" of 336 jobless and got himself arrested for walking on the Capitol grass...
...names of the Seniors winning Summas are: Moses Abramovitz of Brooklyn, New York; John Barton Appelbaum of New York City; Garrett Birkhoff of Cambridge; Harold Leslie Bisbee of Milton; Jacob Canter of Newton; Frank Gilchrist of Bronxville, New York; Henry Adams Morss, Jr. of Boston; David Henry Popper of White Plains, New York; James Sloss of Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Henry Babcock Veatch, Jr. of Evansville, Indiana; James Wallerstein of White Plains, New York; William Barry Wood, Jr. of Milton; and Paul Maurice Zoll of Roxbury...
...Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music, is given to Jacob M. Coopersmith, of Forest Hills, New York...
...named St. MacCarthem. Traditionally he drove the snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland's Holy Hill he spent 40 days, heckled by demons in the form of hideous birds of prey which he finally scattered by ringing his bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood...