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...unsettled are aviation insurance rates, two offers last week indicated. Both were for damages to houses caused by planes. American Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., figured that $1.56 a year was sufficient premium for $2,500 insurance. Continental Insurance Co. of New York figured $3 the yearly premium for $2,500 insurance on property within one mile of an airport, $2.50 for property between one and five miles from airports, $2 for properties farther away...
When Mr. Dana died last week librarians grieved, paid tribute. Since his Denver days he had gone to Springfield, Mass., for four years (1898-1902) and increased that library's circulation by 47%. Then he had entered the Newark Public Library of which he was still Librarian at the time of his death. The Newark shelves had 78,798 books when he arrived. Last year it had 391,843 volumes and a 5-to-1 turnover. During his 27 years, two outstanding Dana deeds were the installation of the first U. S. Business Man's Library...
When en art museum was begun in the Newark Library,* Librarian Dana insisted that beauty must be associated with utility. One day museumgoers were shocked by an exhibition of modern open-plumbing. Another day Newark art-lovers trooped to see an exhibit arranged, designed and specially announced by Mr. Dana. In whispers they exclaimed over the beauty of the bowls, the form of the colored vases. Wisely they nodded their arty heads over the placard "Beauty has no relation to age, rarity or price." Then one art-lover gave an exclamation. The others fluttered to the side of the afflicted...
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...storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years of steady growth with the purchase of L. Bamberger & Co., potent Newark department store. Macy's 1928 sales* were $90,251,396; Bamberger's were $35,001,214. The 1929 sales of the two stores are expected to reach $140,000,000. The 1928 net income of the combination was approximately $10,000,000, of which Macy's contributed...