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May 7, 1938

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SINCE 1818.

Russell Maloney

PROFIIE of Brooks Brothers, and history of the clothing firm. The firm was founded in 1818, by Henry Sands Brooks. Winthrop Brooks is president, and his …

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a reporter at large

REPORTER AT LARGE.

Richard O. Boyer

Visit to the N. Y. Browning Society which met at the Waldorf-Astoria. Woman member gave a briographical sketch of Thomas Jones, the poet whom she first …

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