Personal Lights on William D Howells
This tribute recalls William Dean Howells as a prolific writer and cultural figure who spanned eras from stagecoach days to modern transit. It highlights his friendships with leading authors, his openness to new forms including vaudeville, his practical editorial cooperation, and his encouragement of young writers. It notes his late-life joy with grandchildren and his 75th birthday letter to New York schoolchildren.
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William Dean Howells
United States
Ohio
Kowells
New York
John M. Howells, Jr
William Dean Howells 3d
Jack
Billy
Mr. Howells
Atlantic Monthly
Saturday Press
Montreal
Howells
Bayer Aspirin Brand and Genuine Product Claims
An old advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin as the genuine tablet trusted by physicians for nineteen years. It notes packaging in Bayer tablets with proper directions for colds pain headaches neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism and mentions handy tins of 12 tablets costing a few cents.
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Bayer
Worcester Woman Granted Divorce After Abusive Marriage
Mrs Adela Westling was granted a divorce from Alric J Westling in Worcester Superior Court on cruel and abusive treatment. She alleged he choked and kicked her and said he did not want blood on his hands on a Christmas night. She works for the Postal Telegraph Company in New York and he is a foreman in a Worcester wire mill. they wed December 5 1917 in Jersey City.
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Worcester
Adela Westling
Alric J. Westling
Westling
Postal Telegraph Company
Pennsyyvania
New York
Jersey City
Phi Beta Kappa Keys Awarded to Tufts Students
Phi Beta Kappa keys were awarded to 12 Tufts undergraduates in Packard Hall Medford last night. Frank P. Grey of the University of Pennsylvania spoke on Retrospection of the War Melville Johnson of Tufts presided. Recipients included Ralph Weston John A Rood Thomas Hathaway Paul Holden Edgar E Walker George Lipkin John P ODonnell Anita Bulzer Ruth Brooks Gertrude E Berry Francis Worth Clifford Geer.
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Tufts College
Packard Hall
Medford
Frank P. Grey
University of Pennsylvania
Melville Johnson
Tufts
Ralph Weston
John A. Rood
Thomas Hathaway
Paul Holden
Edgar E. Walker
George Lipkin
John P. O'Donnell
Anita Bulzer
Ruth Brooks
Gertrude E. Berry
Francis Worth
Clifford Geer
Simplicity In Funeral Of Howells
William Dean Howells is honored in a simple Episcopal ceremony at the Church of the Ascension New York. Dr Percy Stickney Grant presided with few eulogies as friends and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters attended. Howells requested cremation and will be taken to Cambridge Mass for the service.
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New York
Church of the Ascension
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
William Dean Howells
Percy Stickney Grant
Mr. Howells
American Academy of Arts and Letters
William M. Sloane
Academy
Hamlin Garland
William Rutherford Meade
Augustus Thomas
Edwin Howland Blashfield
William C. Brownell
John
Ixendrick Bangs
J. Henry Harper
John Corbin
Elihu Root
Henry Irving Dodge
Orlando Rouland
Henry Rutgers Marshall
W. A. Rogers
Grant
Cambridge Mass
American Academy
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Century Club
Office Club
St. David Society
Henry Mulls Aiden
Harper's Magazine
Hamilton Holt
Whitelaw Reid
Ernest Poole
Oliver Herford
Herbert Adams
Juliet Wilbur Tompkins
Charlies de Kay
William I. Briggs
Harper’s Magazine
Thomas Bb. Wells
Alexander Black
George Wharton Edwards
Arnold Brunner
I. N. Phelps Stokes
Robert Aitken
Charles W. Nauman
Bishop Atwood
Arizona
Oldest Phi Beta Kappa Charter Member Speaks at Tufts
Dr. Frank P. Graves of Philadelphia, the lone living charter member of Pelta chapter Phi Beta Kappa, served as orator at Tufts College Medford annual literary evening held in Goddard Chapel last night.
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Frank P. Graves
Philadelphia
Pelta
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Goddard Chapel
Tufts College
Medford
Harvard establishes two endowed professorships
Harvard University creates two new endowed chairs. The George F. Baker professorship in economics is funded by George F. Baker Jr. and first occupant is Professor Charles J. Bullock, who has taught at Harvard since 1903 and in economics since 1908.
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Harvard University
George F. Baker
George F. Baker, Jr
New York City
Charles J. Bullock
Harvard
Baker
Harvard reshuffles chair appointments in medicine and law
The Charles Wilder chair in preventive medicine and hygiene will be held by Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, now on Harvard Medical School staff. Harvard Law School reshuffles its endowed chairs with Edward Warren moving to the Weld chair, Austin Scott to the Story chair, Joseph Warren to the Bussey chair, and A S Dewing named assistant.
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Charles Wilder
F. Wilder
Cambridge
Milton J. Rosenau
Harvard Medical School
Rosenau
Harvard Law School
Edward H. Warren
Story
Weld
Samuel Williston
Dane
Austin W. Scott
Mr. Warren
Joseph Story
John Chipman Gray
Jeremiah Smith
Roscoe Pound
Joseph Warren
Bussey
Brannon
A. S. Dewing
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William D. Howells
SY George Buchanan Fife
The
New York World
America
Daily Press
Harper's Feekly
Harpers
Leland
Martin’s Ferry
Europe
Longfellow
Hawthorne
Lowell
Holmes
Nutfield Peas
Nutfield Tea
Jersey Belle
Nutfield
CF Hovey Co
Coats
Jersey
Bolivia
Peachbloom
Fur
Beach
Dr. A. Reed Cushion Shoe Co
West ST
Economics
A. E. Monroe
A. H. Cole
R. S. Meriam
Niles Carpenter
W. A. Berridge
Lindsay Rogers
Haddock
Downtown Fish and Meat Department
Canal St
North Station
Uptown
Ashby-Crawford Co
Hudson, Mass
Bedell Stores
Washington Street
Bedford
Coats & Capes
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