Word: barbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a little county seat in New Jersey called Mays Landing. It was 26 years ago that a Negro working his way through a western university had a nervous breakdown. So he gave up his education and went to Mays Landing where he opened a barber shop. Business was good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian...
...Perkins advanced to the same round with a victory over P. R. Pease '26, 6-4, 6-2. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 eliminated Asaph Churchill '28 with the loss of but two games and will meet the winner of the W. T. Smith '26 and Norton Barber 1G, match for a place in the semi-finals...
...Barber '26, Alden Briggs 1G.B., Asaph Churchill Jr. '28, E. S. Mindlin 1G.B., and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, are the singles players who have entered the fifth round...
...annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless" or "radio" knife for surgeons; photograph-transmitting radios-in all, devices numbering over 20,000, developed since Benjamin Franklin (fabulously) drew current from the heavens on a kite string...
...forced to three sets before downing E. C. Gale '27. If he can overcome W. T. Smith '26, seeded number eight, he will probably meet R. A. Magowan '27, who yesterday eliminated N. A. Barber IG.B., at 4-6.6 s.6-2...