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After the other aspects of Du Chaillu's discoveries are forgotten and the spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes...
TEAM B UNION BOAT CLUB Breese, No. 1 No. 1, Badger Cole, No. 2 No. 2, Wheeler Canfield, No. 3 No. 3, King Cornish, No. 4 No. 4, Jeffries Barnaby, No. 5 No. 5, Ayres
The Mayflower Hotel in Washington announced that William Jeffries Chewning Jr., young bank clerk who eloped with Margo, daughter of millionaire Senator James Couzens of Michigan would become one of its assistant managers, would report for work daily at 8 a. m. in frock coat and grey trousers, would take...
Vice in Detroit grew greater, became the subject of wholesale graft accusations by Judge Edward J. Jeffries, presiding jurist of the Recorder's Court. The Mayor and Commissioner Gillespie went to the Kentucky Derby. While they were gone, Commissioner Emmons had many a gambling den raided. Wroth, the Mayor...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan, meeting William Jeffries Chewning Jr., his son-in-law, for the first time at lunch in Washington, told reporters: "He seems a very nice chap." Mr. & Mrs. Chewning had eloped to Baltimore (TIME, Feb. 10).