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...great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work as cash boy in a Charleston department store. Six months later he got a job as messenger with the Southern Railway, eking out his $8-per-month wage with tips and newspaper-selling at night. After seven years his salary was $35 per month. Meantime he had learned shorthand and typing, got a schooling in literature from an old classical scholar fallen on evil days. In 1896 a move to Savannah gave...
...lately at No. 5 Bryanston Court, Bryanston Square. Though she was in the U. S. for swank turf events such as the Pimlico in 1934, her Baltimore relatives sniff: "We are completely out of touch." Her late uncle, Solomon Davies Warfield, was for years president of Seaboard Air Line Railway...
...Carbon, Ind. (pop. 476), the postmaster protested that railway mail clerks have not been throwing the Carbon mail off the train. The mail clerks explained that when the wind is from the northwest it blows the locomotive smoke in the mail coach door and they cannot see Carbon...
Died-William Donald Lippitt, 49, president of Great Western Sugar Co., largest beet sugar producer in the U. S., president of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association and of Great Western Railway Co.; after a fall from horseback; in Denver...
...Calcutta railway station many months ago promenaded one Amarendra Nath Pandey, a rich, youngish man who feared assassination. Warrant for his fear-someone (his stepbrother, he suspected) had dabbed lockjaw germs on the nosepiece of his spectacles. The germs had almost caused his death...