Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More Smoke Screen. President of the society, Professor Samuel Wilson Parr pleaded for pure air. He found 80 per cent of present fuels guilty of producing smoke, thereby increasing heating costs by waste of combustible material, increasing cleaning costs, injuring merchandise, injuring health by screening off the ultra violet rays of the sun, and corroding the lungs with sulphur fumes. He dubbed the domestic chimney more dangerous than the factory smoke stack. The inadequate supply of anthracite has been the argument for burning bituminous coal, but bituminous coal can now be perfectly converted into gas and coke which...
Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass...
...Died. Samuel B. Upton, 64, village barber, father of Peggy Hopkins Joyce, and father-in-law of her four successive husbands; suddenly, of paralysis; at Farmville...
...Clarence S. Darrow, Will Rogers, Oscar Odd Mclntyre, Samuel George Blythe are among those who will cover the presidential conventions for the news syndicates...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman. 63-year-old Brooklyn clergyman and dispenser of comfort by correspondence, addressing a meeting of Baptist deacons last week in Atlanta, Ga., mused wistfully: "I wish that we might have one more Protestant Mayor of New York before...