Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canton, Ohio, John Routz, 11, disputed the ownership of a chocolate Easter rabbit with Charles Christeen. After brawling in the street, Master Routz followed Master Christeen to his home, forced open he door, was shot dead by his adversary...
River bandits south of Canton grew bolder last week, seized a $50,000 oil cargo from Standard...
Chairman Owen D. Young of General Electric Co., President of the Board of Trustees of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.), executive committeeman of International General Education Board, possessor of 15 honorary degrees, was nominated for election to the New York State Board of Regents (educational) in the Legislature. He was defeated by George H. Bond, lawyer and trustee of Syracuse University. Reason: Mr. Young is a Democrat...
Radium is so precious therapeutically and so expensive that when a hospital loses its bit the loss stirs the community. Canton, Ohio, was thus excited last week by the disappearance of a quarter-inch tube of radium worth $5,000, at Aultman Hospital. Hospital officials sent for Professor Samuel James Mclntosh Allen of the University of Cincinnati to help them find...
...buyers from tea that is below standard quality and purity. Each year about 100,000,000 pounds of tea are offered for U. S. importation. In 1922, 1.85% was found inferior; in 1924, only 0.06%. Last year of 93,593,264 pounds, 0.123% was turned down. Usually Canton oolong, the tea Chinamen like, receives the highest percentage of rejection for poor quality. Damage and deterioration in shipping are important quality-lowering factors. Once artificial coloring was the chief cause of rejections for impurity, now teas rejected for this reason are mostly merely guilty of containing too much extraneous matter...