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This Whist Club was founded in Manhattan in 1893. It admits only about 100 resident members. The president is Charles M. Schwab, famed steel king; the members are almost all socially and financially impeccable. It is a small, quiet, publicity-shy club; existing only for card games, but nowadays not Whist...
...Chemistry. The president, Dr. George David Rosen-garten of Philadelphia, begged that the present period of history be called the Age of Chemistry instead of the Iron Age, Steel Age, Motor Age, Mechanical Age or any other Age. He rehearsed familiar benedictions from chemistry, predicted further benedictions, such as the total eradication of disease...
...parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
Advice, often unwelcome, is sometimes valuable. Thus, alert newsreaders were last week glad to share the admonitions offered to widow, daughters, grandchildren, in the will of Elbert H. Gary, late U. S. Steel Corp. head...
...Steel Corp...