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Died. Winthrop Saltonstall Scudder, 83, of Manhattan and Cambridge, Mass., longtime art editor for Houghton Mifflin Co. (book publishers); in Manhattan. Mr. Scudder was an original member of the Oneida Football Club, first in the U. S., which played its first game on Boston Common in 1862* and was never beaten, never scored upon...
...Great Election Banquet," however, Mr. Edmond's contribution, is of another order entirely. The banquet of the Democrats of Oneida country, all fourteen of them with the addition of the stage driver who voted both Democrat and Federalist, a banquet which culminated with the practical destruction of the Baptist steeple and the absolute inundation of all the guests to the great discomfort of the Federalists who had to foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table...
Jones Bros. Tea and Oneida Co. Creameries...
Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...
...Other less famed trucks that were absent: Gotfredson, Hahn, Henney, Hercules, Hermath, Kankakee, Lathrop, Master, Menominee, Michigan, Oneida, Oshkosh, Red Ball, Sayers, Standard, Stoughton, Tiffin, Traylor, Vulcan...