Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Called by some "the most important literary find of the century," these papers alone probably surpass any other existing collection of Boswelliana, of which the finest hitherto have been those owned by Robert B. Adam, Buffalo (N. Y.) collector, and by Alfred Edward Newton of Philadelphia. The value of the collection varies widely in different estimates. It is insured for about $100,000; experts agree that on the market it would bring from $20,000 to $150,000. But to Boswellians and students of 18th Century letters, these documents are undoubtedly beyond price...
...people purred contentedly at being thus addressed. Scarred thugs in saloons; bleary night crowds in Porto Rico; hawk-eyed Indians in New Mexican hovels; gentlewomen in staid mansions in Buffalo, N. Y.?all leaned forward eagerly...
...postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...show opened in Manhattan in 1926 and went on the road in 1927. It was to open in Buffalo on Sept. 26, later going to the Pacific Coast, but without Miss Cleveland...
...McGraw's New York Giants; in Toledo. Though third baseman, he played his position with a catcher's mitt.- Died. Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, 68, famed railroad surgeon, one of those who attended President William McKinley at the assassination by one Leon Czologosz in 1901 at Buffalo;† at Randolph...