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Thirty-five years ago Reuben Curtis, a cattle-raiser of Chatham Four Corners, Columbia County, N. Y., spent a comfortable night with his father at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston's fashionable Back Bay district. When Cattle-raiser Curtis went again to Boston last week, to sell 43 head of stock to the Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care...
Nelson looked out there, saw Bess, a shaggy black mare, patiently switching her tail, harnessed to an old-time buggy, haltered to a steel trolley-line pole. He demurred. "It's the law," said Reuben Curtis. A hundred guests soon filled the echoing lobby, but failed to decide the case. Reuben Curtis and a bellhop hustled to the nearest police court, quickly unearthed this 100-year-old statute...
...Reuben returned. "You gotta take care of my Bess," he repeated. Desk Clerk Nelson complied, rejoicing that Reuben Curtis had already sold his cattle...
Mexico?Joshua Reuben Clark...
...Ratified: 1) a Hague convention modifying the rules of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property: 2) a Pan-American pact for protection of trademarks and commerce. ¶ Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. ¶ Adjourned until...