Word: elm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other finalist is George Von Elm, the Pacific Coast star, who defeated Max Marston, last year's champion, 7 up and 6 to play...
...Washington elm at Concord, which endured since Revolutionary days, died during the last year. The great landmarks of life all pass-except great newspapers. In 1801 Alexander Hamilton, casting about for publicity medium for the Federalist Party, founded a little four-page sheet, The New York Evening Post. That sheet was sold last week to Cyrus H. K. Curtis, proprietor of The Saturday Evening Post, of The Ladies' Home Journal, of The Public Ledger (Philadelphia...
...Washington Elm is not to die. A scion of that famous tree will be planted on the original site. This is Boston's gift to the city of Cambridge. The tree is now growing at Charlestown Heights where it was planted in 1905 from the Arnold Arboretum and presented to the Boston Park Department. During its years of growth, the tree has received the best of care and is a remarkably sturdy specimen. Washington's birthday has been set for the date of transplanting...
...seedling from the Washington Elm which was recently removed by city officials, is now among the elms growing in the College Yard, it was learned yesterday from Mr. W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings. The seedling was given to the University in 1916 by Mr. Leonard W. Ross of the park department of the city of Boston, and it is now growing in the large plot of grass between the steps of Widener and University Hall...
Curio collectors will be wide awake during the next week or more because the Washington Elm on Garden Street will be cut down, if the action of the Cambridge park commissioners and Mayor Edward W. Quinn at a recent meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city...