Word: fitch
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Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
...night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president of Barker Tobacco (independent), and President Wood Fitch Axton of Louisville's famed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. Inc. (Spuds, Twenty Grand, Old Loyalty, White Mule...
...live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once but the parents separated them until Upton could make enough to support his wife. Not until...
TRAITORS WITHIN-Herbert T. Fitch- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Documented memoirs of a real Scotland Yarder, with intimate glimpses of such notables as Lenin, Trotsky, King George, the glamorous Angelica Balabaroff...
...Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Baltimore subside 3.5 to 11.5 in. a century. Key West seems stationary. The rises & falls seem to be rhythmic. Boston, now sinking, was on the up between 1847 and 1876, with most of the elevation gained between 1857 & 1858. The sudden gain, surmises Dr. William Fitch Cheney Jr. (Connecticut Agricultural College), was related to the Naples earthquake of 1857. Charleston had an earthquake in 1886 which may account for the movements at Charleston and Baltimore...