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...pictures of Atlantic liners, Nantucket whalers, Mississippi steamboats, British, French, Dutch ships of the line-but he also specializes. Pride of his portfolios is a special collection of every steamboat that ever plied the Long Island Sound. He has a model of the Isaac Newton, first steamer on the Hudson to have three tiers of staterooms. He has not one but several lithographs of the Atlantic, first Sound steamer to use illuminating gas. One thing he lacked: a picture of the Glen Cove, first Sound steamer to be equipped with a steam calliope for the entertainment of the passengers...
Baker Boom. Fortnight ago the potent Cleveland Plain Dealer declared for the Democratic nomination and election of Newton Diehl Baker who does not encourage his Ohio friends' efforts to put him into the White House. Last week Martin L. Davey, "tree surgeon" and onetime Congressman, started a "Draft-Baker" movement in Ohio. Modest Mr. Baker again spurned the chance to be a presidential candidate, favored delegates pledged to Ohio's Governor George White, declared bread, not beer, would be the 1932 campaign issue...
...Dunster House Squash team started its season in Class D of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets League by beating the Newton Y. M. C. A. racquet-wielders, 4 to 1. This win puts the Dunster team in second place in the second division of Class...
...third body elected at the elections that have just ended was the Class Day Committee, for which seven men were chosen. The successful candidates are as follows: Edmund Austin Mays Jr. of Buffalo, New York; Robert Morrison Faxon, of Quincy; Wilson Hill Crosby, of West Newton; Thomas Elias Armstrong, of Dallas, Texas, Donald Murdoch Frame, of New York City; Otto Ernest Fuerbringer, of St. Louis, Missouri; Daniel Bliss Dorman, of Beirut, Syria. These men will have charge of all the arrangement connected with Class Day, of Which they are to have charge for the class...
Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...