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Rome Wire Co., and Moser & Cotins (Utica, N. Y. agency) for their Rome Wire trade journal...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...
Chicago thus had authority for its ditch 9 feet deep and 200 feet wide from Utica, Ill., to Grafton, Ill.-but no authority to fill it with lake water. Army officials, uninterested in sectionalism but keen for a central U. S. waterway, believed that the Secretary of War could furnish the necessary authority. That, said Ohioans and others, remains to be adjudicated...
...more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times too big for it, bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner, Arthur Hind, of Utica, paid $32,500 for it. It is the most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside the octagon, and in the square a schooner, full-rigged, with "British...