Thrift Talks Stir Washington Business and Public Outlook
Washington businessmen and distant leaders blame President Coolidge for a buyer strike hurting commerce. The piece argues retrenchment is needed, urges living within means, and compares demand for luxury to a dog imagined in prayer. It questions virtue of spending and warns against widespread hoarding.
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Washington
Michigan Bars $85 Million Dillon Reed Dodge Deal
Michigan State Securities Commission blocks sale of an $85 million Dillon Reed issue tied to the Dodge Brothers purchase. The action cites assets short of debenture notes and preferred stock totaling $165 million by $27 million, with $19.6 million paid for goodwill and commissions. Blue sky officials deem goodwill non asset and protect investors.
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Dillon, Reed and Company
Dodge Brothers Automobile Concern
Dodge Brothers
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Blue Sky’ Department
Michigan
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Securities Commission
First electric line marks long era of travel in America
The article notes it has been thirty seven years since America's first electric line began operation and that around eight hundred lines remain active while mileage declines as interurban buses take over. It points to rapid progress and the electric car's near origins in a nearby Cleveland city.
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Anniversary notes and historic events dallied in today
Yesterday and today anniversaries highlight figures such as Robert Gray Robert Browning Jeremiah Chaplin William J Stone and Sir Augustus Nsnton beside events like Lusitania sinking and royal visits. Birthdays conferences and local inaugurations are listed with dates and places.
Notable Scientist Dr Charles Greeley Abbot Head of Global Solar Study
Dr Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian leads a four year worldwide expedition to measure daily solar heat and starlight for long range forecasting. He, born May 31 1872 in Wilton New Hampshire, has long served the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and National Academy of Sciences and authored books on the sun and solar mysteries.
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Draper
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Rumford
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American Association For the Advancement of Science
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Philosophical Society of Washington
Washington Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
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Mexico
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L. B. Aldrich
California
Way of the World and Art Notes Include Orpen Exhibit
The piece cites a Philadelphia Ledger description of Sir William Orpen’s Man Versus Beast at the Royal Academy in London, a parable on self and society featuring a bear and a monkey among revelers. It also offers curmudgeonly business notes on idea credit and a Chicago crime-cost claim.
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William Orpen
Rolay Academy
London
Philadelphia Ledger
Tenth Anniversary of the Lusitania Sinking
The paper marks the tenth anniversary of the Lusitania disaster noting a loss of 1 210 lives and greetings to former Speaker Joseph G Cannon as he enters his 90th year. It also reports William G McAdoo and Mrs McAdoo entering ten years of marriage as Eleanor R Wilson.
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Lusitania
Joseph G Cannon
William G McAdoo
McAdoo
Eleanor R Wilson
35 Years Ago in the City Highlights
The Board of Health ordered a general cleanup as E G Shamans was employed as sanitary inspector. The district census enumerator team led by Merton Gage and Charles Chandler Jr to conduct the city census. A May festival at the opera house hosted by the Woman's Relief Corps and the first open air concert by the G A R band in the public park. Seth Griffin, track builder, offered payment to work in Pars. West Avenue paving progressed to Tauru Street. Connecticut lawmakers rejected a bill to allow women to serve on juries.
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Opera House
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Seth Griffin
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Tauru Streat
Harris Leads Cotton Exchange as He Reflects on Life
A portrait of Harris highlights his rise from a New York Cotton Exchange member to president after buying the firm’s membership. The piece notes his solar research, scientific papers, and travels in Algeria and Chile, framing the prime years 45 to 65 and 65 to 85 as periods of work, achievement, and balanced health.
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New York Cotton Exchange
Harris
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Cotton Exchange
Exchange
Right to a restful life in later years
The passage argues that Sh should have the right to live more restfully in later years, enjoying fifteen pleasant years from age 85 to 100. It envisions comfort, leisure, and admiration of youthful prowess as a source of delight in that period.
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