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...Cincinnati Post appeared this flood-time advertisement: "Lost. 3-ROOM COTTAGE-Painted white, green trimming: from Terrace Park, Sunday morning. Reward. AVon...
...Biography"--Avon, 45th Street W.--Ina Claire back from cinemaland cast as the mistress of great men. Thoroughly entertaining and witty...
...with the ancient sport of cockfighting imagine it to be a sinister and ugly pastime, practiced in the dead of night by sadistic thugs. Such persons know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd...
...same time Whitney Gaylord Case of Buffalo, was selected as manager of the Freshman team, and Thomas James Gasson Tighe, of Lowell, as assistant Freshman manager. Case prepared at Avon Old Farms School, and Tighe at Phillips Andover Academy...
...Described by a correspondent of Britain's leading Conservative paper, the London Morning Iost, as "just dreadful-an ugly, big. heavy, bare, forbidding red brick factory with the straight lines of featureless windows and a tower-like tank-utterly out of harmony with the lovely Avon reach that it does its best to monopolize" (being built on the river's brim...