Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staple goods, a staple price; each and every one costs two dollars. If you have not chosen yet, ask that newsdealer to hand you Rodomont (Putnam) by H. Bedford-Jones. Therein two shrewd and muscular sons of American forests swash and buckle about the craggy slopes of Mont St. Michel in the days of Louis XIV. Ham and eggs? Not precisely, but the same principle...
Henry Russell Wood '27, of New Bedford, was elected captain of the wrestling team yesterday afternoon to succeed C. H. Bradford '26, captain of this year's team. Wood prepared at Milton Academy, where he twice won the school championship, and captained his Freshman team, which was defeated by Yale by the slight margin of 14-11, despite the fall gained by the 1927 leader. During the past two years, he has been wrestling in the 158-pound division and has been a member of the two teams which won New England Intercollegiate championships. He was injured this year...
...founded about a year ago for the purpose of uniting Harvard studnts interesteed in Germanic language, literature and art, has announced the election of officers for next year as follows: President, E. W. Gross '27, of New Rochelle, N. Y.; Vice-President, H. R. Wood '27, of New Bedford; Secretary, J. C. Prothero '27, of Jeannette, Penn.; Treasurer, J. V. McCurdy '27, of Dansville, N. Y.; Executive Committee, G. M. Vaughn '27, of Evanston, Illinois; W. H. Ennis '27, of Chicago, Illinois...
Died. William Wallace Crapo, 95, "oldest ex-Congressman," "first citizen of New Bedford (Mass.)," famed lawyer, banker, industrialist; at New London. In 1876 the U. S. was brought almost to the verge of civil war by the dispute as to whether Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) or Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) had secured sufficient votes to elect him to the presidency. The House and Senate chose a Commission of seven Democrats and eight Republicans to adjudicate this matter. By a majority of one the commission gave the election to Hayes. Mr. Crapo was a Republican member of this Commission. Thus...
...winter and spring schedules, beyond the Brattle Hall concert on February 19 have not been completed, but overnight visits to New Bedford and Fall River will probably be arranged...