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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. STARTS ANNUAL CLOTHING DRIVE TODAY | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...this merger, too, are the individuality and tradition of another famous morning paper, Charles A. Dana's Sun, absorbed by The New York Herald in 1920, and perpetuating its name today in one of the strongest evening newspapers in the country. There is also included The Press, a pioneer in the reporting of American sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merger | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...British officer in frank expression of his views in the critical period of the siege of Boston in 1775, lost by its owner soon after in the British retreat from Philadelphia, buried for almost a century in the possessions of a Connecticut family, unearthed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and forever rescued from the scrap heap of history by the Harvard University Press--this, in brief, is the story of the "Diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775" which will shortly issue from the Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long-Lost Diary of '75 to Appear Shortly From University Press; Has Valuable Notes on Bunker Hill and Lexington | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

...record was almost lost to posterity. In the 1870's Edward Everett Hall '39 got wind of it. He mentioned the diary's existence in a class among the members of whom was Elizabeth Ellery Dana, daughter of the famous Richard Henry Dana. 'With great difficulty, Miss Dana traced the document from Philadelphia, where it was known to have disappeared, to Connecticut. Discovering it finally, she purchased it, and William Dean Howells, then editor of the Atlantic Monthy, was so impressed with its importance, that he published a few excerpts in 1872 with notes by Miss Dana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long-Lost Diary of '75 to Appear Shortly From University Press; Has Valuable Notes on Bunker Hill and Lexington | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

...document's wanderings did not end there. Soon after it disappeared mysteriously from a safe deposit vault, and now only two manuscript copies, one by Miss Dana, the other by her sister remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long-Lost Diary of '75 to Appear Shortly From University Press; Has Valuable Notes on Bunker Hill and Lexington | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

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