Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
...fame was slow in coming to little Bertha. She went to Indiana University and completed a four-year course in three. Then she taught in the Classical High School of Worcester. About that time Henry Landes, a Hoosier who had been a student with her, took his A.M. in geology at Harvard. A few months later, on the day after New Year's, 1894, they were married. He had a job as assistant to the state geologist of New Jersey. The next fall he was made principal of the Rockland (Me.) High School and a year later was appointed...
...election took place last week. Some 95,000 votes were cast and little Bertha, now big Bertha, got some 6,000 more than "Doc" Brown. The total vote was larger than it had ever been...
Married. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, daughter of Prince and Princess Michael Cantacuzene, and great-granddaughter of General U. S. Grant, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville, at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, in Washington...
Engaged. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U. S. President, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville...