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...county jail for a year last week went one of Scranton, Pa.'s most wealthy and politically potent citizens. He was Edmund Beson Jermyn, scion of one of those old Scranton families whose farms were found to cover coal. Now more than 60, he had respectably acquired banks, hotels, real estate. Twice (1914-18, 1926-30) he was mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall...
Last week, while his lawyers scurried about in vain to get a stay of execution pending appeal, Jermyn got into his automobile, drove blithely off to Walton, N. Y. where he had racehorses running, returned in time to begin his sentence...
...size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist of Jermyn St., London...
...Robert Greene, W. E. Sachs 1L. Thomas Lodge, F. H. Koch 1G. Thomas Nashe, C. Kempner '06 Owen, K. K. Smith 1G. Davy, W. F. Wilbur 2L. Francis Archer, F. H. Koch 1G. Rouse, H. Kempner '08 Host of Deptford Tavern, F. M. Wright '07 Jermyn, R. H. Lord '06 Boy, L. Hatch '05 Alison, Jane Sever Her Ladyship, Emma C. Noyes Dame Benet, Eleanor W. Hutchinson Gill, A. M. Hurlin...
Messrs. Collins and Fairbanks of 407 Washington St., have just received an elegant line of English hats from the celebrated hatter "White," of Jermyn St., London...