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...claim of the British building to the honor of having inspired Longfellow's familiar verses is not the first to have come to light, but according to the owners of the "Cock Horse", a tavern which now occupies the home of the blacksmith, and to several old inhabitants of the district such claims are entirely spurious. "There is no truth in the story," said Miss Withey, who has lived next door to the blacksmith's house for over 70 years; when the reporter asked her if the true smithy were in England and not in Cambridge. "I remember playing under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Village Smithy" Is Not Doomed to Disappear--Miss Withey Says the British Claim Is "Entirely Spurious" | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

Ziegfeld Wagner, son of the Great Richard, was the author of a new opera presented last week at Rostock, The Blacksmith of Marienburg. The audience was not thrilled. "A mediocre son of a famed father," sighed the critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Battistini | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

Born in a grimy village in the factory district of Derbyshire, son of a "hardfisted, Methodist, blacksmith father," his dark youth was lightened by a gentle mother from whom he learned the Baptist faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Clifford | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

That was Casey at the Bat. The ball game was 38 years ago. And since then Casey has become a legendary figure like Paul Revere and the Village Blacksmith. Last week he came to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mighty Casey | 11/5/1923 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City at night the party went on to Pocatello, Idaho. There the President spoke on the World Court with Senator Borah standing by. Governor Moore introduced the President, and struck twice at the opinions of Senator Borah regardless of the latter's presence. Mr. Atkins, a blacksmith, presented the President with a horseshoe made from the iron of an old wagon left on the Oregon Trail. The President replied: " At the end of five minutes the President was still going strong about what wonderful men mechanics, especially blacksmiths are . . . [much cheering] . . . There were a good many people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Anabasis | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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