Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings, and being a Scotsman, he was a thrifty man. His religion compelled him to spend six shillings a week to drive from Lossiemouth to Elgin. But his desire to get good value for his 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...
...octogenarian widow of the late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...
...Clifton Copley, who used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against...
...Clifton Copley, Representative from Illinois (1911-23), bestrides the country editorially with one foot planted firmly on newspapers of Joliet, Aurora, Elgin and Springfield, Ill., and the toe of the other on three papers in San Diego, Calif, (see p. 34). Last week he set his California heel down on 16 more papers of communities around Los Angeles, where his wife was born. The seller of the 16 papers was Frederick William Kellogg...
...Includes Aurora Beacon-News, Joliet Herald-Ncws, Elgin Courier, all Illinois...