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Atlanta. 50th biggest U. S. bank. Largest bank in 13 Southern States. Largest bank south of Philadelphia. These were the claims to size made by the new First National Bank of Atlanta, Ga. To form the institution last week the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank announced plans to merge with the Fourth National Bank. Combined resources will exceed $140,000,000. Presidents of the merging banks are John K. Ottley and T. K. Glenn, identified with Coca Cola Co. Worcester. In Worcester, Mass., the Worcester County National Bank, The Second National Bank of Barre and the North Brookfield National Bank...
This meant adding eight pages to the paper, nearly doubling its size. It meant 60 additional correspondents, one at least in each State capital, several more in "subcapitals" like New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle. The State news was to be arranged by subjects, not by States, the criterion of significance being social rather than geographical...
Although rain was beating down on Cambridge, Md., last week, men enthusiastically lugged into the Choptank River a one-ton steel model of the steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their...
...been marked by the irregularity of its development. Struggling through the early years of the last century it seemed for a time destined to be a little backwoods academy, without distinction of any kind, confining its scope to the education of the solid yeomanry of New Hampshire. About the size of Amherst and Williams, but without their academic prestige, Dartmouth was well on the way to obscurity...
...shouldered his way through the crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant, who later died, Sheriff Adkins says he heard his deputies start shooting their real guns...