Word: masses
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Massachusetts. Dubious relations between city, county, state and national officials, and the bootlegging profession are universal. At Lawrence, Mass., the typical defendants on trial last week were the mayor himself and his brother, a Chelsea police inspector. These brothers, by name Quigley, Mayor Lawrence F. and Inspector Thomas, were indicted last August with 42 others as belonging to an alleged "ring." An ex-convict testified that he was paid $300 for helping to unload liquors at the Quigley mansion...
...less than half his own lifetime helped considerably to change the character of civilization. Last week, at the age of 81, he died of pneumonia, after four years of retirement from business. By 1883, the year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light...
...Coffin negotiated the merger of his Thomson-Houston Electric Co. of Lynn, Mass., with the Edison General Electric Co. of Schenectady, which J. P. Morgan had casually financed to manufacture power machinery. The new General Electric Co. which absorbed them (and, soon after, several other competitive and related firms) covered their entire field. Mr. Coffin, perspicacious of the industry's future, obtained control; made himself president. He was able to do this because he was in many respects as adroit a financier as Mr. Morgan and because Mr. Morgan never had a flair for young industries. Besides...
Last week William Eleazar Barton, hoary custodian of Lincolnia, proclaimed that Father Cyr, who his Eminence declared celebrated the masses at Lincoln's stepmother's, had not yet been ordained when Lincoln left his father's home, that Sarah Bush Lincoln was not Catholic by birth and that she died in the communion of the Disciples Church, that Father St. Cyr never celebrated mass in the Lincoln abode, that if Cardinal Mundelein really wanted the six carved chairs, Dr. Barton would gladly exchange them for their weight in gold...
...roster of those who have spurned Manhattan pastorates for the greater contentment of provincial charges. The present instance is that of Rev. Robert R. Wicks who has refused to succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin at Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbysterian Church. Pastor Wicks remains; at Holyoke, Mass., industrial boiling potlet...