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...speakers for the second series will be Dr L. W. Baker, professor of orthodontia: Dr. E. A. Tisdale, instructor in orthodontia: Dr. P. K. Losch, assistant in operative dentistry; and Dean L. M. S. Miner from the Harvard Dental School staff: and Dr. D. A. Thom, director of the division of mental hygiene. Massachusetts department of mental diseases: Miss R. L. White, chief of dietetics. Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children: and Dr. C. F. Wilinsky, Director of the Beth Israel Hospital, as guests speakers...
Died. William Jay Robinson, 62, proprietor of the Stage Coach Inn at Locust Valley, L. L, oldtime newspaperman (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune) and Klondike miner, founder of the Optimists Club of America (membership 300,000); in Locust Valley. He took the first shipment of gold out of the Klondike, made a fortune, lost it in the panic of 1907, founded his club soon afterward...
...Boston. Mr. Green declined. Then the President was reported willing to appoint anyone upon whom Mr. Green's federation could agree. Some time later, Mr. Green called at the White House not with one agreed-upon candidate, but with four candidates representing four groups: Miner Matthew Wohl, Metalworker John P. Frey, Plumber John R. Alpine, Carpenter William Hucheson. Apparently Mr. Green was emboldened by the President's consultations. He protested too strongly against the appointment of any man outside these four...
...uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired a large fortune, he went to Wilmington, Del. intending...
...system commonly used today of flashing electric lights as a danger warning is not wholly successful. Busy miners often fail to notice the signals at once. Often an electric system will be disrupted by the very accident that occasions its use. The odor method is cheap, sure. Even the busiest miner will notice an unusually unpleasant smell...