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Referee--W. R. Higgins, Holy Cross, Umpire--E. L. Scoles, Bowdoin. Linesman--James Liston, Boston College. Field judge--Joseph Pendieton, Bowdoin. Time--11-minute periods...
Theories as to the motive for killing Potter were varied. One said he had been "put on the spot" by racketeers. Another called attention to the fact that one Liston Schooley, like Potter a city official ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper in "The Statesman's Window"), was about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case...
...peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...
...celebrated at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. It was there, on Oct. 16, 1846, that Dr. William T. G. Morton (1819-1868), then a young dentist studying medicine, anæsthetized a patient with ethyl ether, while Dr. Warren, senior surgeon, removed a tumor. Others (Long, 1842, Robinson, Liston, Jackson) have disputed with Morton priority in the use of ether, but the consensus of medical opinion has awarded him the honor...