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...Cabinet, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, forewent his customary trip to Europe this summer. Last spring he took a Caribbean cruise. His holiday now will consist only of frequent Friday-to-Tuesday trips to his and his brother's Rolling Rock demesne near Pittsburgh, to watch and instruct his only son Paul, literarily inclined but learning the banking business...
...mill boy, has been called "a past master in New England economy." His economies at Amoskeag were heroic. Amoskeag messenger boys now furnish their own bicycles; Amoskeag trucks, all except three, stay inside the plant walls to avoid the necessity for license plates. With costs at the rockiest of rock bottoms, Treasurer Dumaine has also modernized production and selling. The new rayon mill turned out 800,000 Ib. of rayon last year. Not without opposition has Treasurer Dumaine set Amoskeag on its feet again. Employes have grumbled against his rigid economies, as when last March the print-cloth workers voted...
Holds upon hill and valley, rock and slate...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...Navy were still in striking distance, but at the railroad bridge they were out of it and M. I. T. was trying wildly and uselessly to hold off Syracuse. Cornell was so far ahead now that the speed boats following behind moved up and let their wash rock the shells of the losing crews. Cornell was three lengths in front of Syracuse, eight in front of M. I. T., Columbia was behind California but ahead of Washington. Just before the finish line the Navy swamped in the wash of a Coast Guard cutter...