Word: fished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Included in the collection are garments, weapons, idols, fetishes, and other utensils, the whole giving a picture highly representative of the life of the tribe. Several women's dresses made of fish-skins and decorated with skillful applique work are perhaps the most interesting pieces...
Married. Edith Antoinette Savoy, daughter of "Eddie" Savoy, to Robert Morgan of Washington. "Eddie," Negro messenger to the office of Sectary of State since 1869, has served under Hamilton Fish, William M. Ewarts, James G. Blaine, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, John W. Foster, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Olney, John Sherman, William R. Day, John Hay, Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, Philander C. Knox, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes. In recent years, he has presented passports to all representatives of foreign governments, including Bernstorff and Dumba...
During 1923 over 120,000,000 pounds of fresh fish have been landed at the port of Boston alone, and a distinct business revival is reported in the old fishing town of Gloucester...
...curious result of liquor smuggling and bootlegging activities along the Atlantic coast between Boston and Baltimore has been a marked rise in the retail price for fresh fish of almost all kinds because fishermen and boats here found rum-running so much more profitable than fishing, that adequate supplies of fish can be obtained only by raising prices right and left. Whether or not this novel explanation is a fish story remains for the Coast Guard to discover; as defensive tactics by dealers it evidently has psychological merit, since no one has yet declared fish dealers were profiteers, or demanded...
...price of fish. It is forced up by prohibition...