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Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops...
...Massachusetts and Rhode Island one of my customers had been delegated to collect funds among the bootleggers which they sent to the Republican National Committee...
Those not scientists, however, have only a skimpy idea. So, since natural history museums should educate as well as collect, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan had Curator Roy Waldo Miner reproduce in wax and glass a cubic half inch of pond life. The exhibit was opened to the public last week...
...strange, and at first unpleasant, that at Harvard all tests above the rank of "section quizzes" are supervised by proctors appointed by the College Office. Their duties are two-fold; not only to see that students do not employ dishonest methods but also to distribute blue books and papers, collect them at the close of the period, sort and check them, and in general take charge of the conduct of the examination. They are not present, however, to answer queries as to the interpretation of questions; the instructor in charge of the course will do that in the first...
Legislator. Matthew J. Patterson, plump, horn-spectacled member of the State Legislature and Vare-Republican leader of the 19th ward, was arrested and held in $15,000 bail, charged with extortion, bribery, conspiracy. A lawyer testified that Mr. Patterson had commissioned him to collect certain moneys "for campaign purposes." During six months up to Aug. 15, the lawyer had accordingly obtained $12,195 from one William C. Peters, a florid gentleman with a drooping moustache. The lawyer was not aware that Mr. Peters was a saloonkeeper. He was not aware that the funds were protection fees from 20 speakeasies...