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Every well-informed citizen of Kansas City knows how the late Robert Alexander Long went into the lumber business, boosted Long-Bell to be the largest lumber company in the world operating under one ownership, built the company city of Longview, Wash., and paid himself, as founder-chairman, a $60,000 salary during good years. The first years of his married life Lumberman Long passed in a $700 cottage in a corner of a lumber yard. But before he died last March, aged 83, he had erected for himself a huge 70-room porticoed limestone and marble Renaissance house-fine...
...acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following an operation for cancer; in Brooklyn, N. Y.¶ Died. Robert Alexander Long, 83, board chairman of Long-Bell Lumber Co., founder of Longview, Wash., model city; after an operation for intestinal obstruction; in Kansas City. At 22, Lumberman Long went to Kansas City, entered the hay business. The hay he could not sell...
Next day the President was back at his desk in Washington, where he found that the gossip currently to the fore was that the "social control bloc" of young liberals in the Administration was chafing at his hesitancy to push longview radical reforms...
Construction crews followed the timber cruisers. Mills were erected at Longview, Wash, on the Columbia River to secure water transportation to world markets. Railroads were built 30 mi. into the hills to lug down the logs. Plunked down in the wilderness, the entire city of Longview (pop. 10,500) was constructed for employes. Long-Bell became the world's largest lumber company. Then, two years after the Northwest operation was begun, said Founder Long, "the lumber business just dried up." Dividends were passed in the autumn of 1927, earnings shriveled and last spring Long-Bell failed to pay its bond...
...novocaine order handed last week to Maybelle Viall. drug dispenser of the Longview State Hospital for the Insane at Cincinnati, called for 2 grs. She tilled the order, sent the anesthetic to the tonsillectomy room where a row of inmates were to have their tonsils taken...