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...shrewd and eccentric as his father, Phelps added to his holdings until he had some 30,000 acres of Adirondack resort land, including 23 miles of navigable waterway and ten lakes. Neighbors like Edward F. Hutton and Ogden Reid collected their mail from Paul Smith's township postoffice, used electricity from Paul Smith's Light & Power Co., shunted their private cars onto a railway spur that the Smiths built from the New York Central at Lake Clear Junction. When the old hotel burned to the ground in 1930, Phelps Smith remarked that the hotel business was no longer...
...little towns in the Allegheny Valley closed shop & school to turn out in personal tribute to the 75-year-old president of their local steel company, Allegheny Steel's Harry E. Sheldon. It was Constitution Day for the rest of the U. S., but for Tarentum, Brackenridge. Harrison Township and Natrona Heights, Pa., it was SHELDON...
...Harrison Township on a brisk, sunny morning assembled what the Valley Daily News described as "the greatest throng in Valley history"-nearly all of Allegheny Steel's 7,000 workers and more than two-thirds of the entire population (37,000) of the Four Towns. A special train brought millmen from the West Leechburg Steel Co. plant, twelve miles away, which Steelman Sheldon acquired last July to expand his $24,000,000 company. On street corners the visitors paid 2? for a 42-page Sheldon Edition of the Valley Daily News, stuffed with local advertisements hailing the community...
...Boston Latin School; Karl F. Guthe, Ann. Arbor, Mich, University of Michigan High School; Irving M. London, of Malden, Mass., Malden High School; Richard M. Noyes, of Urbana, Ill., University High School; Frederic E. Pamp, of Roslindale, Mass., Roxbury Latin School; Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago Heights, Ill., Blom Township High School; Lee S. Rosenberg, of Cincinnati, O. Walnut Hills High School; Royal S. Schaaf, of New Yark, N. J. Exeter; Julius L. Shack, of Mattapan, Mass., Boston Latin School; and James Tobin, of Champaign Ill., University High School...
When Campbell Soupmaker John Thompson Dorrance died in 1930 leaving a $100,000,000 estate, two States greedily claimed him as a native son. New Jersey asserted his residence was Cinnaminson Township, N. J.; Pennsylvania protested that he officially lived in Radnor, Pa. First to win out in this long litigation was Pennsylvania which last year received a juicy $14,500,000 slice of inheritance taxes...