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...Eagle, the Times is unknown outside of Brooklyn. Yet the circulations of both papers are around 100,000. It was not always so. When the late Carson C. Peck, vice president of F. W. Woolworth Co., bought it in 1912, the Times was the small neighborhood organ of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. (An early editor was William Cullen Bryant.) Mr. Peck acquired it because he was approaching the Woolworth retirement age of 60 and wanted something to do. At the same time the Eagle was practically the daily Bible of Brooklyn's quiet, aristocratic, somewhat provincial families...
Escorted by the Rev. W. H. Tipton of Jefferson City, Tenn., Teacher Rose Marlowe of Williamsburg, Ky. went to inspect the partly destroyed Shanghai Southern Baptist Mission School. Seated in a parked car while the Rev. Tipton was walking among the ruins, Miss Marlowe who does not speak Japanese was addressed by two Japanese armbanders...
...York City, on the Williamsburg Bridge, was found a section of a woman's thigh. It had been cut by some one apparently skilled in surgery. Police searched the bridge, found two bloodstained newspapers but nothing else. Said Deputy Inspector George Bishop: "Looks like another Ludwig Lee murder...
University Scholarships: (first year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) R.F. Baker, Battle Creek, Michigan; C.E. Barnes, Lewiston, Maine; W.B. Gardner, Hartford, Connecticut; C.C. George, Washington, District of Columbia; R.B. Heilman, Easton, Pennsylvania; E.B. Vest, Dixon, Ilinois; H.M. Reynolds, Williamsburg, Virginia
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