Williston Head Dr Sawyer Reflects On Half Century Of Service
Easthampton June 16 Dr Joseph H Sawyer longtime Williston Seminary principal and beloved counselor to about seven thousand boys reflects on his fifty years in education. He explains the school needs endowment funds to endure amid postwar challenges and shares memories of notable alumni and views on curriculum athletics and self governed students.
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Joseph H. Sawyer
Williston Seminary
Post
Sawyer
New England
Williston
Dr. Sawyer
Colonel Watterson
Academy
Pop” Sawyer
William Skinner
New York
Holyoke
Washington Thomas
Boston
Washington
Johnson Smith
American Board of Commissioners
Davenport
N. Y
Amherst
Monson Academy
Soule
Phillips- Exeter Academy
Henry Joseph Sawyer
House Passes Navy Budget
The House approved the 1920 naval appropriation bill totaling about 600 million dollars. It abandons a new three year building programme and trims naval aviation funding to 15 million while maintaining continuation of the 1916 build. Specific costs include 133 million for ongoing builds and smaller allocations for Boston and Portsmouth yards and facilities.
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Washington
Naval Aviation
House
Senate
Naval Committee
Daniels
Boston Navy Yard
Portsmouth
Boston Yard
Commonwealth Drydock
South
Boston
One Hundred Condensed Novels
A promotion of condensed novel versions by Professor William Fenwick Harris. The ads claim readers who know the originals and those unfamiliar will gain a clear idea of the works through these condensations.
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William Fenwick Harris
Life of Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s School Days
The obituary highlights Thomas Hughes born 1822 at Uffington Berks. It covers his schooling under Dr Arnold at Rugby, legal career, and work with Frederick Maurice and the Workingmen's College. It notes his Parliament service his Rugby colony venture in Tennessee and his friendship with James Russell Lowell. It praises his novels Religio Laici and Memoir of a Brother and his enduring reputation as a schoolboy chronicler.
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Thomas Hughes
Uffington
Berks
Tom
Rugby
Arnold
Oriel College
Oxford
Tom Brown
Tom Hughes
George
Dean Stanley
Arthur
Oriel
Frederick Maurice
Charles Kingsley
Workingmen’s College
Workingmen
Tennessee
America
James Russell Lowell
Tom Brown at Rugby Opens His School Days Tale
The excerpt shows nine year old Tom Brown departing for Rugby with his father’s cautions to be brave honest and true. It contrasts class perspectives and highlights Tom’s rough yet democratic village upbringing and early clashes that shape his character in the rugby era.
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Tom
Boots
Bob
Tom Brown
Rugby
William the Fourth
Squire Brown
Harry Winburn
Jacob Doodle-calf
Job Rudkin
Madam. Brown
Job
Brown
Miss East
Berkshire
East
Agnold
Destructin
Arthur
The
Post Publishing Co
Boston Post
Nuptial Mass at St Cecilia’s for Gorman and Sabin
The Rev Father Fletcher officiates the morning nuptial high mass at St. Cecilia’s Church and will conduct the ceremony uniting Miss Bertha Gorman and Milton Roe Sabin. Gorman is to be given away by her uncle Senator Murphy of Ottawa.
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Fletcher
St. Cecilia's Church
Bertha Gorman
Milton Roe Sabin
Gorman
Senator Murphy
Ottawa
Copley Plaza
Emerson College
New England Conservatory of Music
Oswego
N. Y
Commonwealth Avenue
Back Bay Police Honor Capt Skillings With Gift
Captain Skillings of the Dudley street division was invited to Back Bay station where Captain Goode and Lieutenant Mulligan presented him a S4-inch travelling bag. The ceremony followed roll call led by Special Officer John Brett Sergeant Joseph Comerford and Patrolman Bill Delaney. Skillings has long served at Back Bay since 1895 except for a 1917 to 1919 period when he was detailed as lieutenant before becoming captain.
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Back Bay
Perley
Dudley Street
Thomas F. Goode
Francis Mulligan
Captain Skillings
John Brett
Joseph Comerford
Bill Delaney
Goode
Mulligan
Back Bay Station
Skillings
Police Department
Back Bay House
Tom and East at School Acknowledges Loyalty and Friendship
A 1915 Boston Post condensation recounts Tom and East forming a lasting bond at school. The tale praises friendship, sportsmanship, and leadership as Tom befriends Brown, learns courage, and confronts a bully under the Doctor's mentorship.
Back issues available at set per-copy prices
The series offers back numbers at standard rates: Daily Post copies for 2 cents each, Sunday Post in Greater Boston for 6 cents each, and 7 cents elsewhere, with immediate application required.
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Daily Post
Greater
Boston
Sunday Post
Schoolship Nantucket Returns From Cruise
The Massachusetts nautical schoolship Nantucket formerly the Ranger returned to Boston harbor from a four week southern cruise. with 116 cadets aboard the vessel visited Philadelphia Hog Island shipyard and Camden New Jersey. Governor Coolidge and Lieutenant Governor Cox were set to inspect the Nantucket at 2 pm today with the governor’s staff and school commission members.
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Massachusetts Nautical
Nantucket
Ranger
Boston Harbor
Philadelphia
Hog Island
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Coolidge
Cox
French Government May Have Gasolene Monopoly
In Paris on June 16 Louis Klotz the French finance minister presented to the cabinet a bill for a government monopoly on gasoline imports. The state would buy abroad and regulate all imports with an estimated annual revenue of 5 million francs. Refining and wholesale selling by others would be allowed while the government considers sharing profits with private industry.
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Paris
Louis Klotz
Chamber
Klotz
Clemenceau
Prominent Bank Cashier Dies in Hartford
William L. Davidson longtime cashier of United States Bank dies at home in Hartford after two months illness. He served 40 years with the bank and was about 58 years old, son of Charles S. Davidson longtime Hartford railroad superintendent.
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Hartford
Conn
William L. Davidson
United States Bank
Charles S. Davidson
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Society Women Learn Hair Curling Secret
Gladys Coleman advises women to curl straight hair using a toothbrush dipped in pure silmerine after brushing. Overnight, hair is said to become wavy and natural looking without streaks or grease, with four to five ounces lasting months.
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Gladys Coleman
To Remove First Signs of Old Age
Mme Cava Heri notes the sagging facial muscles as an early aging sign. She advocates strengthening them with a facial bath using Saxolite powder dissolved in hazel water to improve circulation and firm the skin. Saxolite is sold at drugstores for toning and astringent effects on flabby tissue and wrinkles.
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Mme. Cava- Heri
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Dombey and Son
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Ivanhoe
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