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...president in 1910, board chairman in 1923. The Essex "Terraplane" is Mr. Chapin's latest mechanical achievement. A persistent agitator for good roads, he headed the Highway Transport Committee of the Council for National Defense during the War. He married Inez Tiedeman, daughter of a Savannah capitalist, who bore him a handsome row of six children. He lives at swanky Grosse Point Farms, plays among the sea islands of Georgia...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...secretary was gayly exploded by Montreal Gossip Colyumist Margaret Currie. "What a thing it is to be a statesman!" wrote she. "A little bird told me that the Premier was host to all the delegates, not only for their accommodation and meals, but for the special train itself which bore them from Quebec to Ottawa. Perhaps this is the first time Canada has ever had a Prime Minister who could afford such a gracious gesture...
...city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others were placed into trucks & cars, hustled to hospitals. The steamer went back for those who had refused to return early, found many of them ill. Doctors went...
...neighboring Journal-Courier, which promptly junked it. In Michigan two other obscure Macfadden sheets, the Lansing Capital News and Greenville News, were expected to be disposed of momentarily. Some time ago Macfadden sold another pair of Michigan smalltown sheets. (None of these five was a tabloid, none bore the Macfadden fleshpot hallmark.) Remaining in his hands are the only Macfadden papers which have ever made money:* Automotive Daily News, Investment Daily News, Philadelphia tabloid Daily News...