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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also been secretary of the Provident Institution for Savings, and a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. Mr. Wolcott was a member of Battery A. Massachusetts Militia for seven years and afterwards second and first lieutenant in Troop B of the Massachusetts Guard; as a member of the latter organization he was on duty in the autumn of 1919 during the police strike in Boston. On October 22, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Army and was detailed to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on November...
...cause for the flag-waving and bell-ringing, as requested by the Anti-Saloon League of America, will be the eighth anniversary of Prohibition. The League called the latter the "new Declaration of Independence." The League expected 25,000 churches and hundred-thousands of citizens to take part. The League said its two-day demonstration, which begins with sermons on Jan. 15, would be unique in church history and would "serve as a notice to public officials...
Canadian Milk. Directors of the Ottawa Dairy Co. Ltd. formally approved the merger of their company with the Borden Farm Products Co. of Montreal, which is a subsidiary of the Borden Co. The latter interests in turn control the Borden Farm Products Co. in the U. S., and last week they incorporated at Dover, N. J., another corporation-the Borden Milk Products Co. Inc., for $50,000,000. The newest Borden company presumably will act as holding company for the Reid Ice Cream Co. and J. M. Horton Ice Cream Corp., which the ensemble recently purchased...
...following might come through the winner or take places: Bocher of Germany, EK quist of Finland, Jorgenson of Norway, Martin of Switzerland, and Svenson of Sweden Besides Hahn the menon whom America will probably depend should in clude the New York Athletic Club winners Leness, Proudstock, and Helfrich, the latter if he is in shape. Men from whom starters will also be picked will be McCloskey of the Boston Athletic Association. Soper of New York' City and Dodge and Walson of the Illinois Athletic Club...
...course (and with reason) that the interest taken in this subject is negligible when compared to that manifested by the Roman multitude in, the persecutions of the Christians. One may also maintain that the modern concern in this matte is purely philosophical: but there is little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist...