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Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing...
...outcropping of bad taste produced by the Brothers Shubert is that exponent of scatology, Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale. Mr. Sale is the man who brought the subject of rural sanitation to the immediate attention of the U. S. public last year when he published a slim volume called The Specialist which has sold some 650,000 copies. As a side issue he has also endorsed a cathartic (Ex-lax). But the first and principal vocation of Mr. Sale remains the theatre. He has been on the stage for the past 18 years...
...test his theory, Mr. Knapp tried raising ducks himself on Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier...
...purchased last week by a group of admen organized as Tide Publishing Co. President will be Everett R. Currier, of Currier & Harford, Ltd. and Currier & Ives. His principal associates will be Raymond Rubicam, president of Young & Rubicam Inc. as consulting editor; Philip Kobbe of Philip Kobbe, Inc. as promotion specialist. Present Tide Staff Writer Dexter Masters becomes editor, and Frederick Franklin, formerly of Sales Management, business manager. The new company will begin publication with Tide's January issue, will make changes in form and content later...
...attempt to enumerate everything that could interest the casual museum visitor or the professional scientific man, since much that is also fine has not been mentioned; but merely a very summary review of those pieces in the Fogg Museum exhibition that cannot fail to interest both layman and specialist...