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...first subjects of vacination, leading the way to a medical practice which has meant so much to the world, are memorialized in a set of Staffordshire ware also on view. The set of china was presented by Dr. Edward jenner, English physician and discoverer of vaccination, to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, a member of the Harvard faculty from...
...Some months ago he wrote a booklet called Brass Tacks explaining the whole economic system as he saw it, a work that is supposed to be a favorite with Franklin Roosevelt. This summer he went to an island in Maine, settled down with Brain Trusters Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen as his neighbors, began to produce a nontechnical version of Brass Tacks...
Died. Mrs. Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, 80, widow of Treasurer Benjamin Newton Duke of American Tobacco Co., sister-in-law of American Tobacco's late great Founder James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke;, in Blowing Rock...
...Fifty-nine-year-old Benjamin F. Cheek, Clinton, Ind. garage owner: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 event of U. S. trapshooting; at Vandalia, Ohio...
Unique is South Carolina's method of campaigning for a primary election. In 1890 Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, out for Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers...