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...Charles Ferdinand Dowd, principal of a seminary in Saratoga Springs. N. Y.. first thought of a way to end the time nightmare. He presented his zone system to a railroad convention in 1869. Not until 14 years later did the roads divide the U. S. into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time...
...yard relay--Won by Harvard; R. G. Dorr '36, T. H. Dowd, Jr. '36, R. C. Johnson '36, W. W. Jeffers '36. Time...
HARVARD HOLY CROSS Hill, No. 1 No. 1, Maclaughian Breese, No. 2 No. 2, Nicholson Frame, No. 3 No. 3, Keenan Ingraham, No. 4 No. 4, Carroll Tower, No. 5 No. 5, Foy Barnaby, No. 6 No. 6, Dowd...
...alarm board of the Holmes Electric Patrol, police were summoned to find the source of the trouble. Source: Fishermen Kozinsky, Colderia, Torba and Torba had discovered and sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them...
...money compelled him to commit the sin of drunkenness on Saturday, in order that he might have some reason to go and interview the Priest and get absolution next morning." Instant were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa's Church, "the words were an insult to about half the people of Canada, who adhere to the Roman Catholic Church." Montreal. Largest of Dominion cities, fifth most important seaport in the world, terminal headquarters of both the Dominion's great railway systems...