Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several men received the same degree as of the Class of 1930. They were: R. W. Canfield, of New York City, Samuel Cauman, of Brookline, J. E. McKenna, of Brighton, E. W. Olney, Jr., of Convent, New Jersey, J. J. Riley, of Charlestown, F. J. Von Scholer, Jr., of Huntington, Long Island, N. Y., R. A. Thomas, of New York City, and F. C. Troll, of St. Clairsville, Ohio...
...happy, happy man was U. S. Circuit Judge Curtis Dwight Wilbur one day last week as he stood on the dock of the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard and watched the 134-year-old frigate Constitution go back into naval service for the fourth time. The occasion was a belated climax to his career as Secretary of the Navy (1924-29). Frankly a sentimentalist, one of his outstanding deeds in office was sponsoring the collection of thousands of pennies from thousands of school children to pay for the reconstruction of this black, chunky relic. Now he had crossed the country from...
...famed musicomedian and hoofer (Sunny, Rosalie, Sons o'Guns), magazine fictioneer (Letters of a Hoofer to his Ma), producer (Lost Sheep); after a chronic infection of the kidneys, sinus, heart had caused his collapse while playing Cincinnati in Sons o' Gum; at his home in Manhattan. Born in Charlestown, Mass., he began his theatrical career at 14 by appearing in local amateur nights. Subsequently medicine show entertainer, smalltime vaudeville dancer, he had his first big success in Sunny (1925). Despite the pain in his legs and feet, occasioned by the illness from which he died, he not only worked...
...Charlestown Prison, Boston, Mrs. Edith Barlow's husband wanted his habitual narcotics. Mrs. Barlow stuffed a goodly supply in a rubber finger cot, placed it in her mouth. As she kissed a friendly prisoner, whom in ruse she called her brother, she tongued the drug-stuffed cot into his mouth. A guard caught them...
Coach Fred. Mitchell of the Harvard University baseball team has taken up three players from the second University baseball squad which ended its season last week. They are Holand Dee Roches '52, outfielder, of Charlestown. N. H.; P. A. Ketchum '31, infielder, of Quincy, and L. R. Belknap '32, outfielder, of Beverly...