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...star lacrosse game between the North and the South, the first in the history of the sport, has been arranged for June 14, it was announced in New York yesterday. It will be played in the Municipal Stadium in Baltimore, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first organized lacrosse game in the United States...
...ancient & honorable firm of Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., No. 1 U. S. saw-makers, jubilantly prepared to celebrate its 100th birthday this week. In its big 65-acre, 66-building plant on the banks of the Delaware River in the Philadelphia suburb of Tacony, 2,000 penknives had been grinding-mementos-to-be for the company's employes. Ready for presentation to employees who had served the firm from 20 to 70 years apiece were 539 special service pins. It was to be a wonderful three-day holiday with games, entertainment, concerts, etc. for Disston workers, their families, friends...
Philadelphia's Mayor Lamberton, Pennsylvania's Governor James and the U. S.'s President Roosevelt in commemoration of its 100th birthday and the 100,000,000 saws it has made...
...changes in the musical party line have put such living composers as Dmitri Shostakovich in & out of the official doghouse. In modernist days, some Soviet critics denounced Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky as a sentimental bourgeois. The Soviet line is now 100% melodic. Last week the Government sweetly celebrated the 100th anniversary of Melodist Tschaikowsky's birth...
Last week the Times-Star celebrated its 100th anniversary with a 318-page centennial issue. In an unwonted display of high animal spirits, the staff set off 100 small bombs as a five-pound birthday edition rolled off the presses. A man in a top hat, driving a one-horse shay, went out to distribute copies. The mammoth issue sold for 3?, went to some 300,000 readers: double the normal circulation (153,240) of the Times-Star...