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...ought to be thankful for all your blessings."--President Coolidge to Benjamin W. Morris III, designer of the New York Cunard Building, and father of 34 children...
...Benjamin Wistar Morris III, famed architect of the Cunard Building (Manhattan) was appointed a member of the Fine Arts Commission by President Coolidge...
...mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce to a friend in London; where, with more strands bought of Benjamin Franklin, who kept worms in Philadelphia, 10¼ yards of cloth were woven for the friend's wife's dress. In 1791 a Mr. Aspinwall persuaded the New York Assembly to promise a bounty of $3 for every 100 mulberry trees reaching the age of three years in good...
...error: more space was given to that first of U. S. popular economists, Benjamin Franklin...
Divorced. Marthena H. Williams, granddaughter of the late President Benjamin Harrison; from one Henry A. Williams; in Omaha...