Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chester, Conn...
Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
Died. Harry ("Berg") Berglund, 21, Minneapolis light heavyweight boxer; in Minneapolis; of a fall received from a blow in his first professional bout. His death was the second in two days from boxing, the other being that of Charles Pegulihan, French light heavyweight; in Hartford, Conn...
Died. Ching Sam, millionaire chop suey restaurateur; in Waterbury, Conn...
...York Negro, known to his compeers as the Jamaica Kid, climbed stiffly into a prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney...