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...married a Miss Fannie Phelps, who bore him Charles Phelps Taft and died. He then married Miss Louisa Maria Torrey, who bore him three sons, one every other year beginning in 1857-William Howard Taft, Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer) and Horace Button Taft (founder-headmaster of Taft School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced eleven grandchildren. . . . Lorado Taft...
Fisk (from Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Hood (from Watertown, Mass.) have impressed tire-users with their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...
Class B contestants number 278, entered by Arlington, Belmont, Beverly, Concord, David Prouty of Spencer, Fairhaven, Haverhill, Leominster, Lexington, Malden, Mariborough, Methuen, Milton, Needham, Newburyport, Quincy, Salem, Somerville, Taunton, Wakefield, Watertown, Winchester, Winthrop, Woburn, and Worcester Commerce High Schools...
...practice for the first two eights was light, Coach E. J. Brown '96 having them pull up to Watertown bridge and back with short sprints ordered at intervals. On the way up, the crews changed shells and A. A. Campbell '30 changed places with L. W. Dickey '30. W. G. Saltonstall '28, who was unable to row owing to a slight injury, was replaced in the first boat by Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's eight. J. de W. Hubbard '29 was still in the bow of the first shell where he has been rowing since the Navy...
Jews and gentiles helped each other last week. It began when Horace Button Taft, headmaster of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), bustled into Cincinnati, to promote a $2,000,000 endowment fund drive for his school. He talked with prominent Cincinnatians, including his halfbrother, Charles Phelps Taft,* editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Next day, Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist...