Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow morning the Hasty Pudding Show leaves Cambridge for the first western trip a Pudding production has ever taken. On the way to Buffalo, the troupe, fresh from their three nights' run in the Hasty Pudding Theatre, will stop at Northampton...
...result of the western schedule is as follows: April 19, Buffalo; April 20, Detroit; April 21, Cleveland; April 22, Pittsburg; April 23, New York. Following the show in New York there will be dancing and a cabaret show which will include vaudeville acts by former Hasty Pudding stars, prominent among whom will be Howard Elliott Jr. '22, J. S. Moynahan '24, and J. N. Alger...
Meantime, others have proposed that the U. S. persuade Canada to join in dredging out the St. Lawrence route to the sea. And a Buffalo lawyer, Millard F. Bowen, offered to form a public service corporation to dredge and operate the New York canal free of charge in return for certain waterpower rights. Mr. Bowen's offer received little attention, but debate on the New York v. the St. Lawrence route occupied much time in Washington committee rooms last fortnight, developed into a hot sectional fight, the Midwest turning out with surprising unanimity to favor the St. Lawrence route...
...Continental army, George Washington made a tour of inspection of New York waterways, laid out a route for a canal linking the western frontier with the Atlantic seaboard. In 1817-25. Governor De Witt Clinton of New York dug the Erie Canal ("Clinton's Ditch") from Troy to Buffalo. It was later found that his engineers had followed, inch for inch, the Washington route. More lately, the Erie Canal has been modernized as far west as Syracuse, where it joins the Oswego Canal to form the main New York State Barge Canal...
...artist-father's house on grass-grown Market Street (Newark) was "the resort of notabilities." Thither came Henry Ward Beecher, General McClellan, Horace Greeley, Edwin Booth, Frank Leslie. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun had used to come. Buffalo Bill called next door. Thomas Edison had a shop around the corner...