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...subsubsidiary-United Gas Improvement*-agreed with directors of the Philadelphia Electric Co. (already a part of the earlier merger) to pool their power resources. Their lines will interlace between Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Buffalo, Trenton and Newark; will get current from hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers...
...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...enough to point its outlines. Ten Modern Commandments (Esther Ralston). Among modern young women, it appears, the ten modern commandments are all one: "Get your man." That much Kitten O'Day (Esther Ralston) accomplishes by marrying Tod Gilbert (Neil Hamilton), who has come all the way from Niagara Falls to make his fortune as a song writer in Manhattan, never realizing at first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl...
...married, had a son, married again, then had a son every other year for six years -four sons in all. The first two sons married Cincinnati young women. The third took a wife from Troy, N. Y. The youngest, with a touch of genius, married a young lady from Niagara Falls. Today the original son and his three half brothers are personages: 1) Publisher Charles Phelps Taft, 84, of the Cincinnati Times-Star; 2) U. S. Chief Justice and onetime U. S. President William Howard Taft, 70; 3) Potent Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, 68; and 4) Headmaster Horace Button...
...other Cities?Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Philadelphia and the Niagara frontier?were held up as examples of city-planning "which aim consciously or unconsciously at increasing metropolitan congestion" and exploitation...