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...estate near Fairhaven, N. J., Manufacturer William Gerhard Mennen (toilet goods) was awakened at dawn by the barking of his four-month-old Scotch terrier, Scotty. He got up "to raise the devil with the dog," found his house in flames. Rousing his wife, he discovered the stairway to the servants' quarters blocked, telephoned the fire department, dashed into the kitchen to unleash the dog, rushed outdoors in his night clothes. Firemen soon arrived, rescued the unconscious servants, could not save the house. Manufacturer Mennen looked around the lawn, found Scotty lying dead of smoke suffocation...
...tablet set up in the new Memorial Church to the memory of the three Harvard men who died fighting for the Central Powers during the World War was moved yesterday to a more conspicuous place in the Church proper. It was removed from a position under the stairway on the northwest side, where it was temporarily placed last week, to a spot on the west side of the north wall of the Church proper...
...temporary plaque in memory of the Harvard men on the side of the Central Powers during the War has been set under the northwest stairway of the Memorial Church...
...Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which this year was won by John Galsworthy, another prominent writer in English. Mr. Yeats' most recent plays include: "The Winding Stairway." "The Words Upon the Windowpane", and "The Cst and the Moon...
Residents of D entry of Adams House, in Randolph Hall, were disturbed last night by a flood of water from a patented fire extinguishing system at about 11 o'clock. The shower soon subsided and a fire escape served as an emergency stairway...