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...Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain...
...Chinese in Manhattan who wants to start a laundry does what a Manhattan Irishman used to do when he wanted to open a saloon. The would-be saloonkeeper, in the old days, went first to Tammany Hall for political permission. The aspiring laundryman today trots around to No. 16 Mott Street and fixes things up with the Chinese Benevolent Association. If the place he has in mind is not too near another Chinese laundry, if he pays down his first annual fee in advance and if he is otherwise acceptable to the Association, the applicant may open his shop with...
...Richard Mott Gummere, new Chairman of the Committee on Admissions and lecturer in Latin, will move into the famous Palmer House at the Southeast corner of the Yard sometime during mid-year examinations this February, it was announced yesterday by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of Harvard...
...m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York by a black, stumpy little electric locomotive; a state law forbids Diesel-powered engines from using the city tunnels. At Grand Central Terminal M10001 was hailed by Press & public for the fastest coast-to-coast...
...last year this $150,000,000 heating & plumbing company was operating at 88% of normal (1926). A $20,000,000 annual profit in 1929 had turned to a string of deficits. Last week, however, in a voice which could certainly be heard as far as Washington. Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley roared to a reporter in his great black & gilt Manhattan headquarters...