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...orations must be oiginal, must not require more than ten minutes for delivery, and must be on any one of the following subjects: The Constitution, Washington and the Constitution, Hamilton and the Constitution, Jefferson and the Constitution, Marshall and the Constitution, Franklin and the Constitution, Madison and the Constitution, Webster and the Constitution or Lincoln and the Constitution...
...York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees reaching the age of three years in good health. Mr. Aspinwall then rushed out on Long Island and planted 800,000 mulberry trees. Another outburst of silk fever occurred in the 1830's. Daniel Webster bought 5,000 trees for his Massachusetts farm. Farm papers told their readers that five acres of mulberry trees would support a family sumptuously. Nine state legislatures established mulberry and silk-reeling bounties. As always before, the boom languished. The industry stayed where it had started 50 centuries before, in China...
...first prize of $35 and a second of fifteen will be awarded by three judges, chosen from the University Faculty. These arbiters are: Langdon Warner '03. Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Research in Asia. Professor K.G.T. Webster '93, of the Department of English, and L.D. Peterkin Instructor and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages...
...everyone knows," I've been in the coffee business 40 years and always believed the par value of Brazilian milreis to be about 27d. English, or 54c U. S. Webster's New International confirms...
...Stone & Webster, famed New England engineering, construction and securities firm, announced last week amalgamation of Blodget & Co., Boston and New York investment house, with its securities department. The new company, to begin operations Jan. 1, 1927, with $10,000,000 capital, will be known as Stone & Webster & Blodget, Inc. Bayard F. Pope, now partner of Blodget and Co., will be President. This extension of investment-securities interests, said President-elect Pope, was necessary to care adequately for both the investor and Stone and Webster's rapidly increasing engineering-construction work...