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Last week there opened in Cleveland the vast annex to Halle Bros, department store...
...issue to replace the previous refinancing mortgages and save the company $1,100,000 yearly in interest; 3) Paul W. Litchfield to continue as president. Mr. Litchfield was long Mr. Seiberling's vice president. Edward G. Wilmer, who now functions as Dillon, Read's president of Dodge Bros, (motor cars, Graham Bros, trucks), was the management committee's first successor to onetime President Seiberling...
...eagerly, hoping that Mrs. Rosie Bevan (nee Wilmot) would put in an appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
Horace E. Dodge, Dodge Bros. (motor cars) heir, makes motor boats at Detroit. Last week, while he disported himself in the Far West (see p, 22), his company issued a statement based on information Mr. Dodge lately collected in Europe: "Since the American public has started a definite movement toward the water for recreational purposes, our [standardized] motor boat industry has grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars...
Died. Mrs. Louise Ketcham Ovington, 90, widow of Theodore T. Ovington, onetime senior member of Ovington Bros, (wedding presents); in Manhattan...