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RICA B. SILVERMAN Scranton...
...yangban (noblemen) of Seoul, the whole fantastic scheme seemed as sinister a foreign plot as had ever been brought to Korea. Never before had the country had a school for women, and now an American Methodist Episcopal missionary named Mary Scranton was opening one with the obvious purpose of corrupting Korean womanhood. There were even rumors, back in 1886, that a girl who dared to go there might have her eyes cut out by the missionaries for medical research...
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...also had spectacular success in attracting payrolls. In Tyler, Texas, where an industrial foundation supported by local businessmen will build a plant to a newcomer's specifications, and rent or sell it back to him at going rates, 40 new industries have moved in within ten years. In Scranton, Pa., a city development commission has rallied more than 3,400 investors who have contributed $3,500,000 to build more than 25 plants that have added $23 million in new paychecks. In traditionally low-income areas, e.g., Mississippi, where generous inducements have been offered industry since...
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...