Word: ashton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton, 67, British complete letter writer, issued a statement last week. Said he to the London Daily Chronicle: "A horrible rumor has reached me that I have written my last letter to 'the newspapers. . . . This rumor is wholly false, as I am now determined to go on writing until I am dead...
...Algernon Ashton has written more than 2,000 printable letters to the newspapers, a world's record, even for England where writing to newspapers is a national pastime...
...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
Died. Viscount Long, 70, former First Lord of the Admiralty, Chief Secretary for Ireland; at his home, Rood Ashton, England. A few months ago he published his Memories (TIME, Sept. 29, FOREIGN NEWS...
...order of the speakers for this evening was determined by lot, and is as follows: "Pass Prosperity Around" A. J. Beveridge Fred Ashton Videon '25 "Call to Arms and Liberty or Death" Patrick Henry Joseph Fisher '24 "Speech at the Funeral of a Brother" Robert Ingersoll James Harry Smith Jr. '25 "The Bells" Edgar Allen Poe Arthur Gustave King '26 "The Necessity of Force" John M. Thurston Paul Whitcomb Williams '25 "The Minstrel's Curse" Ludwig Uhland Milton Arnold Kramer '26 "The Last Suttee" Rudyard Kipling Alvan Ruckman Grier Jr. '26 "Revelation" Robert Service Edward Adams Sawin '25 "Blainc...