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...widow is Mrs. Katherine Ryan of St. Paul, 60, tall, handsome, persistent. In 1904 her husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...Celebrations commemorating 2soth anniversary of city settlement; at New Brunswick...
...excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest and at one time the largest Finnish-American newspaper, a communist triweekly, the Uusi Kotimaa. Though not a Finn, I have spent the past seven years supervising their school...
...finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which told of their meeting with great ice packs. All their efforts to reach a Hudson's Bay Co.'s settlement were frustrated by the terrific northern gales with which they were not fitted to cope. The cemetery found by Major Burwash is probably the only portion of Franklin's camp which has not now been found...
Short addresses will be given by the presidents of the CRIMSON, Glee Club, Brooks House, Lampoon, Advocate, and other men prominent in activities. J. M. Kingman '15, a director of settlement house work in Boston, will inform the first year men on the opportunities and possibilities of social service work...