Printing as Art The Case of Irving Kimball
Irving Kimball president of Cheltenham Press argues printing should be art not mere utility. He notes early books bore printers names, praises Gutenberg Bible typography, and warns against price competition eroding craftsmanship.
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Irving Kimball
Cheltenham Press
Guttenberg
Faust
Kimpall
Kimball
Aldus
Jensen
Elzgevir
Jediks
Pickering
Peonte
Cam
New York
College Entrance Board Plans Extensive Examinations
The College Entrance Examination Board will begin a six day exam cycle across the United States and abroad. Examinations will be held in key cities and almost every state territory plus San Juan Porto Rico and Honolulu. London Paris Geneva Frankfort and Dresden will host European tests. Over 2 000 candidates are registered marking a large rise from last year as larger eastern colleges anticipate bigger entering classes. About 10 readers in New York City will evaluate more than 20 000 papers.
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United States
San Juan
Porto Rico
Honolulu
Europe
Lonodln
Paris
Geneva
Frankfort
Dresden
New York City
Hoboken’s New Industry From Floral Looting by Boats
Hoboken boatmen have created a budding industry by rescuing flowers tossed from ships. They collect bouquets from departing vessels, store them in water tanks, and ship them to New York where street vendors sell the salvaged floral gifts.
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Hoboken
New York
Post Office Robbery at Sea Girt Net $615 in Stamps and Cash
Burglars blew open the Sea Girt Post Office safe early this morning and carried off 600 dollars in stamps and 15 in cash. The explosion woke nearby residents who took it for a gun blast from a nearby State camp. The incident is noted in a local Jersey Post Office report.
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Jersey
Asbury Park
Sea Girt
President Street In and Out at Polyclinic Hospital
At the Polyclinic Hospital in East Thirty-fourth Street James Street the former president of the Street Steamship Company is convalescing after an appendectomy. He led the company with Morgan backing and was later replaced by C F Gregory as president amid internal disputes and rumors of a forced resignation.
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Polyclinic Hospital
East Thirty-fourth Street
James Street
Street Steamship Company
Street
Barker. & Co. Steamship Agency
J. P. Morgan
C. F. Gregory
New York
International Harvesters Company
New England
Henry. Gassaway Davis
Barling
Highwood
Englewood
Inglewood
Steamship Company
Mre- Sereet
Irena
Miller
Fog Encloses 2300 on River Excursion Vessels
Fog grounded the steamer Columbia with about 2300 passengers and the steamer Plaisure with 1200 aboard. Columbia ran aground near Peche Island at tor o'clock last night and passengers spent the night aboard. Rescue steamer Promise aided the stranded vessels and passengers were later taken to Detroit.
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Detroit
Mich
Columbia
L2m
Toro O
Peche Island
Lake St. Clair
Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company
Tecumseh Salt Block
Addicks Testifies in Bay State Gas Receivership Hearing
J Howard Addicks of Delaware testified before Judge Holland in Philadelphia at a Bay State Gas receivership hearing. He had missed a prior subpoena but appeared to avoid contempt. The case, led by George Wharton Pepper, seeks to prove overvalued securities were unloaded on Bay State Gas. Addicks spoke for nearly two hours and will supply Queen City Construction Company records at next session.
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George Wharton Pepper
Nlcons
Statie
Addicks
Queen City Construction Company
Nevada Canal Opens At Reno Boosting Western Irrigation
The Truckee Carson Canal opened today below Reno under the Reclamation act, linking Derby to above Carson City for a 31 mile main canal. Initial use irrigates about 50 000 acres, with plans to extend to 1 200 miles of distributing channels and multiple dams and reservoirs along the Truckee and Carson rivers.
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Reno
Nev
Nevada
Derby
Truckee River
Tola Point
Jeeseville
Carson River
Lake Tahoe
Teacher Becomes Rehired At Little Silver School
Winfield 8. Robinson, dismissed from Little Silver public school, was reappointed after trustees faced a chewing tobacco accusation. He denied the charge. after leading Oceanport school, Little Silver parents rallied, prompting the trustees to rehire him at the board meeting.
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New York Times
Red Bank
Winfield
Robinson
Little Silver
Oceanport
City Eyes Waste Fueled Lights for Streets and Buildings
Manhattan and Queens purchase blocks and city lots to feed new incinerators. Woodbury plans 100000 horsepower engines, lighting schools piers parks and bridges, saving an estimated 70000 dollars yearly and replacing coal with rubbish powered electricity.
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Forty-first Street
North River
Europe
Williamsburg Bridge
New York
Boise
Woodbury
Jeven
Ninetieth Street
East River
Long Island City
F. L. Stearns
Manhattan
Wood Block Pavement Bids Sought Downtown Streets
Borough President Ahearn calls for bids to lay wood-block pavement on busy downtown streets including Chambers Barclay Vesey Liberty Diane and Reade from Broadway to West Street Greenwich Street from Battery Place to Dex Street Jefferson Street East Broadway West Tenth Street and John Street throughout its length.
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Ahearn
Chambers
Barclay
Vesey
Liberty
Diane
Reade
Broadway
West Street
Greenwich Street
Battery Place
Dex Street
Jefferson Street
East Broadway
Henry Street
Chatham Square
Grand Street
West Tenth Street
Hudson
John Street
Policy holders on board at Equitable reorganization
A representative of Thomas I. Ryan announced that policyholders chosen by Trustees can serve as Directors under the deed of trust and the society's charter. The statement, issued yesterday, says there is no ground for anxiety. The public report by State Insurance Superintendent Kendricks is expected soon.
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Thomas I. Ryan
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cleveland
The
Equitable
Kendricks
Western oil price cut announced in Independence
Independence Kansas June 17 The price of Western oil was cut by three cents a barrel. Standard Oil Company now pays 50 cents a barrel for high grade Kansas and Territory oil and reduces by five cents for each half degree gravity below 32 down to 30 cents a barrel.
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Independence
Kan
Standard Oil Company
Kansas and Territory
Rockefeller Family Arrives at Forest Hill Summer Home
John D. Rockefeller and family reached Forest Hill near Cleveland and will spend the warm season there. Rockefeller plans to devote much time to golf and reports good health.
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Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Rockefeller
Plan to Build 20 Mile Parkway Linking City Island and Manhattan
Bronx officers propose a continuous twenty mile driveway from Fifth Avenue Plaza to City Island via Central Park Riverside Drive Boulevard Lafayette Washington Bridge Aqueduct Avenue Featherbed Lane Belmont Street Grand Boulevard Concourse Wendover Avenue Crotona Park and Pelham Parkway. Aqueduct Avenue would be widened to 150 feet and Featherbed Lane and One Hundred Seventy Third Street to 100 feet wide. No cost estimates are provided.
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Bronx
Manhattan
Plaza
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
City Island
Board of Estimate
Central Park
Seventy-second Street
Riverside Drive
Boulevard Lafayette
One Hundred and Eighty-first Street
Washington Bridge
Aqueduct Avenue
Featherbed Lane
Belmont Street
One Hundred and Seventy-third Street
Grand Boulevard
Concourse
Claremont Park
Wendover Avenue
Crotona Park
Crotona Parkway
Pelham Avenue
Pelham Parkway
Pelham Parks
Belden Point
Seventh Avenue
Seventy
In Brightest Africa guidebook issued by Union Castle
A new handsome guidebook titled In Brightest Africa has been issued by the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited. It describes a country of rare attraction for travelers seeking novelty away from standard tourist routes and is distributed by the International Sleeping Car Company at 241 Fifth Avenue.
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Africa
Union Castle Mail Steamship Company, Limited
International Sleeping Car Company
Fifth Avenue
Police plan city wide review after women arrests
Police Commissioner McAdoo expresses alarm over innocent women being arrested on the streets. He vows to summon plainclothes officers for questioning and may form a Headquarters squad to supervise their movements and prevent further errors.
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McAdoo
Pennsylvania Railroad Builds Record Electric Motor
Under Superintendent Gibbs the Pennsylvania Railroad constructs the largest electric motor used anywhere to haul trains through the North River tunnel. Patterned after Baltimore and Ohio tunnel motors it may later serve the East River tunnel. The machine, 33 feet long and over 100 tons, will not be finished for at least four months.
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Gibbs
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
North River Tunnel
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore
East River
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Avenue A
Oriental Bug Sale
India
Lord& Taylor
Twentieth Street
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Ryan
Western Oil
Kansas
Lyons
Lord & Taylor
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Fifth Ave
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Dress Goods Dept
Dimities
Batistes
St. Gall
Madras
Webb
Children’s Tan
Russia
Veer
Button
Gibson
Tan
5Th Ave
19Th St
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