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Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
...Singles are J. H. Finlayson, R. D. Stackpole, J. S. Frame, D. F. Rogers, and S. D. Peirce. The Novice Singles attracted the greatest field, including V. G. Balbont, J. Bremmer, E. C. Carter, F. J. Collins, H. B. Dalby, W. G. Davis, H. L. Farr, H. W. Frederick, X, Y. Jordan E A. Kratovil, K. L. Magnus, H. S, Miller, S. B. Myers, J. G. Park, R. L. Wheelock, F. H. White, and R. S. Wolcott...
...Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand (hanging); near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons had to keep whittling at his ravaged body, performed...
...Rules specified not only what facts must be given, but also that the reports must be on unglazed paper of good quality, 9 x 14 inches in dimensions, typewritten or printed, not in purple or red ink, etc., etc. *Phraseology common in the past only when shares had already been sold...
...difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert J. Van de Graaff (who designed the apparatus) and Lester Clare Van Atta and E. W. Samson (who collaborated) are busily completing a special kind of x-ray tube through which the volts may shoot to shatter atoms. Atoms must be broken up if scientists are ever to know precisely what everything is made...