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...placards posted in stations of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R. R. 50 years ago last week. Some 750 people from Peoria and nearby towns made reservations. A train dispatcher took along his bride. A superintendent of the T. P. & W. attached his private car, invited a party of friends. Sixteen coaches hauled by two locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert over...
...convention nine years ago the Protestant Episcopal Church appointed a Commission on Marriage & Divorce to whittle down its Canon 41, which stoutly enjoined Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common Pleas...
...stocks, bonds, interest, unclaimed deposits by gas, telephone and water customers, filed a series of informations between April and September 1935 that finally impressed Pennsylvania's Secretary of Revenue and moved him to start action. Then Governor Earle, responding to shouts by the Pittsburgh Press about a political "Sixteen Million Dollar Grab," urged passage of a law to require corporations to report all such escheatable sums directly to the State and barred fees to informers.* Last week's suit if successful will force Pennsylvania to go through with the Edelman & Creskoff informations on the 25% basis...
Names of the sixteen winners of the New England private school scholarships are being revealed today by the scholarship committee. The stipends ranging from $100 to $500 are awarded to boys entering Harvard this fall from New England preparatory schools. Under the new ruling inaugurated this year scholarships are renewable during the four years if the student proves himself deserving...
...holocaust caused by the University's stand on the receiving of women into the Houses, the President and his sixteen cohorts asked for a rejection of the "sole woman" parietal rule and a revision and standardization of the old rule. Upon President Conant's return from Europe the suggestion was adopted with a slight modification --the requirement of two males for one woman. Shortly after this compromise the Council, publishing the results of the previous year's investigation, requested that all laboratories be opened at night and that the actual time required for experiments be definitely stated in the catalogue...