Word: champaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Like the Buffalo robbers, four masked bandits stalked in upon a party at the Champaign, Ill. home of Metalman Henry H. Harris. At first mistaken for jokesters, they lined up 100 celebrating socialites, stripped them of $50,000 worth of jewelry and cash. Among the divested guests were Dr. David Kinley, president of the University of Illinois, and his daughter...
...Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280½ hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together...
...Champaign, Ill, Jack Elder (no relative), Notre Dame halfback, tied the world's record for 75-yard dash...
Engagement Broken. Marion Dawes, daughter of President William R. Dawes of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and second cousin of U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes; and one Gordon B. Bilderback of Champaign, 111.; by the elopement of Mr. Bilderback with one Gertrude Sergeant, elocution teacher, ten days before the date of the Dawes-Bil-derback marriage. Said Miss Dawes's family: "A regrettable incident-that...
...Champaign...