Word: ashtabula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trunk route except the Pennsylvania) could be established. The route would run from Jersey City over the Jersey Central lines to Tamanend, thence over the P. & R. lines to Newberry Junction, and thence on the New York Central system through Lock Haven, Keating, Clearfield, Fall Creek, Rose Siding and Ashtabula to Chicago. Construction of about 95 miles of new track to replace existing lines, owned partly by the Pennsylvania system, would be necessary under this plan...
...different system is favor. This is the "Hare system" of P. R., otherwise called P. R. with the "single transferable vote." This system is already in use for parliamentary elections in several parts of the British dominions and for councils in several hundred English-speaking cities, including Winnipeg, Ashtabula (Ohio), and Sacramento. In November it was adopted, by popular vote, for Cleveland...
Henry A. Yeomans was born on a farm on the outskirts of Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1877. He prepared for the University at the Spokane High School, arrived in Cambridge with less than three hundred dollars, worked his way through college, and graduated summa cum laude in 1900, standing second in his class. He took the degree of A.M. in 1901 and that LL.B. at the Law School...