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Frank Ernest Gannett, chain-paper publisher of Rochester, N. Y., went quietly to Brooklyn last week. There he completed a dicker terminating negotiations which have dragged on two years and more, realizing an ambition of many years. He took control of the distinguished old Daily Eagle, which during all the 87 years of its existence had been under the continuous ownership of a family group. _ Two upstate publishers thus became rivals in the huge, various New York City newspaper field. For only last August, another chain-paper man, Paul Block, bought the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Block began his newspaper career...
Married. Richard Harold Saxon Tudor Bold, songster of Earl Carroll's Vanities, great-grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, descendant of English Kings (Harold the Saxon, Richard the Bold); and Rae Gardner, Colonial scioness, of Albany, N. Y.; in Greenwich, Conn...
Married. Warren Redenock Straton, Manhattan Beaux Arts sculpture student, son of Rev. John Roach Straton; to one Ruth Stokes Cater of Douglaston, N. Y.; by Dr. Straton. Later, while driving to visit his son in Norfolk, Va., Dr. Straton was chased by motorcycle police, arrested for driving 50 miles an hour...
Shoes. To personal friends of George W. Johnson (Endicott Johnson Co., Binghamton, N. Y.) came 425 pairs of shoes; to policemen, 16; to switchmen, 23; to ministers, 30; to inmates of the County Home, 252; to school children of Endicott (from George F. Johnson), 6,500; in all, 13,000 pairs. Value...
When the public hears about Sing Sing Prison, at Ossining, N. Y., it is usually news of an escape or a sensational execution. But escapes are rare; only three of the 18 who have escaped since 1920 are still at large. And news of executions is sensationally inaccurate...