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...with water-filled paper sacks. Caught by two city detectives in the act of dousing someone beneath his hotel window was a hero a war ahead of most of the other celebrants-Rear Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, 65, who has spent most of his life since he sank the Merrimac at the entrance to Santiago Harbor crusading against liquor and narcotics...
Died. Elijah K. West, 63, one of the crew of eight who maneuvered the collier Merrimac to Santiago's Harbor during the Spanish-American War, blew her up in an unsuccessful attempt at blockade;* after a brief illness; in Hillsborough, N. H. Rejected as a volunteer to man the Merrimac, West swam out to her as she was leaving the fleet, was dragged aboard...
...Joyous Season (by Philip Barry; Arthur Hopkins, producer) is a solemn and sometimes sprightly investigation of the spiritual life of a family of shell-backed Bostonians. The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street. Their farm on the Merrimac River and the possibility that existence may contain more for them than security on a "careful, calm, contented four percent" are two of the things that they remember when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think...
...year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed...
...Passed a House bill awarding the Medal of Honor to Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N. retired, who sank the U. S. S. Merrimac to block the harbor of Santiago. Cuba, June 3, 1898; sent it to the President...