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...awarded to Milton Elkin of Mattapan. The Charles Downer Scholarship, established in 1927 by the bequest of Charles Downer '89, was awarded to Robert William Raymond, of Albany, New York. The Warren H. Cudworth Scholarship, founded in 1884, by Mrs. C. M. Barnard, was awarded to Joseph Share, of Salem. The Stoughton Scholarship, founded in 1701, by Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton, of the Class of 1650, was awarded to William Jerome Callaghan, of Dorchester...
...began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled...
...direct result of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Another contributing cause may be the complexly of modern life which demands some from of psychological release from the worries of the N.R.A. Sea-serpents were never seen by the sailors on the clippers which sailed out of Salem in the old days. It takes warm spring weather and a brisk tourist service to develop really good monster crazes...
First important glassmaker in U. S. history was Caspar Wistar who opened a factory in 1739 in Salem County, N. J. His specialty was two-color work, generally of little depth, but he succeeded in producing a quantity of whiskey bottles now avidly sought by collectors as South Jersey glass. Most famed U. S. glassmaker was Henry William ("Baron") Stiegel who established a plant in Mannheim, Pa. in 1765, lived in a castle, had guns fired whenever he entered or left town, and died in bankruptcy in 1785. Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers...
...Brown's election to succeed Melvin Alvah Traylor, who died fortnight ago, was no great surprise to Chicagoans. He was the first of a small group of senior officers who constituted "Mel" Traylor's "cabinet." Son of a Salem, Mass, lawyer who went to Chicago in 1872 and became a judge, "Ned" Brown was general counsel for the bank within four years after graduating from Harvard Law School at 23. At 34 he was vice president, at 38 senior vice president. Famed for his knowledge of banking technique, he was operating head under President Traylor. Today...