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...hall of the Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia some 200 Biddies assembled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed...
...tablet on the vine-covered wall of Rugby School close, England. It was not until 1869 that the first intercollegiate football game in the world was played at New Brunswick, N. J. between Princeton and Rutgers. Last week Rutgers, taking part in the celebration of New Brunswick's 250th birthday, re-enacted that game. Chief Justice William Stryker Gummere of the New Jersey Supreme Court, captain of the Princeton team of 1869, is still alive, but his part in the pageant was taken by an understudy. Like the footballers of the old days, several of the pageant players wore...
...mayors of 5,000 U. S. cities throughout the land have gone letters from Charleston, S. C. Each letter asked each mayor to broadcast the news that Charleston was this week having a 250th birthday party, to advise all onetime Charlestonians to return to their ancient city to join the refined festivities. The U. S. Government helped Charleston celebrate by issuing a commemorative 2? postage stamp, by sending Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley and Chief of Staff Charles Pelot Summerall to stand with South Carolina's Governor John Gardiner Richards and North Carolina's Governor Oliver...
...Trenton, N. J. celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement. Nov. 5-7-Nebraska celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Nov. 11-Armistice Day. Foreign News...
...Trenton, N. J., celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement...