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Alfred Lee Loomis, banker (Bonbright & Co.), electro-physicist (effects of high frequency sound waves) had as guest at his splendid private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
Married. Philip Grandin Strong, son of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; to Emma Thompson Smith, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Livingston Smith of New York and Ballston Spa; at Ballston Spa, N. Y...
Died. Mazel M. Merrill, manager of the Curtiss Flying Field, Garden City, N. Y., and Edwin M. Ronnes manager of the Buffalo, N. Y., airport; in an airplane crash near Milford...
Died. Mary Garrett Hay, 71, famed New York suffragist & prohibition pioneer; of heart disease; in New Rochelle, N. Y. For 30 years she had made her home with her coworker, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
Credit. Two credit companies operate throughout the U. S. for the highly technical financing of productive and labor-saving machinery and equipment-the New Amsterdam Credit Corp. (Edward S. Maddock, president) and the Credit Alliance Corp. (Clarence Y. Palitz, president). The Credit Alliance Corp. having just bought all the stock of the other, their merger becomes effective, with $10,000,000 capital, $30,000,000 resources...