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...Charles Edgar Welch. Born Watertown, N. Y., 1852. Public School Education. Practising and manufacturing dentist with his father, 1877-1886. Grape juice man since 1869 at Vineland, N. J. Nominated by the Prohibition Party in 1914 and 1916 for Governor of New York; withdrew in 1914 in favor of Democrat Sulzer and ran for Lieutenant Governor. Defeated both times...
Stimpson, Sullivan, and Vogal have been turning in the best cards so far. The match on Friday will be at Oakley, against Watertown High School who won the school golf championship of Boston last year. The team is practically the same this year, and the 1927 golfers will find a difficult opponent in their first match...
This was the gasoline launch that succored "John Harvard" the other day when she lost her smokestack. Yesterday in a driving wind the modern motor broke down and Coach Haines and his driver were driven ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...
...oarsmen and cox in crew C were the victims. When above the Brighton bridge,--nearly to the first dam in Watertown,--their shell struck a piece of ice, which punched a small hole amidships. The shell rapidly filled and before the crew could pull ashore, the water had nearly reached the gunwales. The men jumped into the water and abandoned the shell to Coach Stevens in his launch. Theoretically, they ran back to the boathouse, but it is rumored that nine men in dripping rowing togs arrived at Newell shortly after the accident in automobiles...
...Nathaniel Williams of the class of 1695, headmaster of the Boston Latin School from 1708 to 1734, was the next to have the book in his possession. Following his death the book changed hands, going to Warhan Williams of the class of 1719, minister of the church in Watertown from 1723 to 1751. A later owner was the Rev. Samuel Sewall, a great grandson of Judge Sewall, who gave the book in 1850 to J. Wingate Thornton, L.L.B. 1840, of Boston...