Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Alva Edison, pseudo-atavistic, grows expert with cocoanuts. At the South Florida fair blue ribbons were tacked to his cocoanuts. He had the best; also the largest cluster. Luther Burbank started him in the cocoanut game. Recently Mr. Edison extended his Florida agricultural activities to experiments for rubber vines...
...Rickard trumpeted from Florida and the nation's press picked up the echoes greedily. Said the famed promoter: "Jack Dempsey is through with the ring." Said Fisticuffer Dempsey in California: "If Tex says so I guess it's true." Failing sight owing to socks in and about the eye were among the reasons offered. Skeptics of the press, long used to sound and fury meaning nothing but publicity, pointed out wearily that Dempsey would not be through with the ring until the public unmistakably gave evidence of unwillingness to pay to see him fight...
Alligators, as mascots of the University of Florida football team, may add color to the recently scheduled contest for the fall of 1929. When the peninsula team invaded the Stadium in 1922, the voracious reptiles were included in the trip and there is every reason to expect their reappearance two years hence...
Plans for the 1929 University football season were a step nearer completion yesterday when it was announced by the H. A. A. that Harvard would meet the University of Florida on the gridiron, November 2, 1929, at Cambridge. This will be the first encounter between the two elevens since 1922, when Harvard was victorious...
Those who have found the weather disagreeable this winter will sympathize heartily with Mr. Robert Condit of Miami, Florida, not, however, because weather in Florida has fallen below its usual standards of hotel prospectus perfection, but because the peculiar atmospheric conditions of the last few weeks have prevented Professor Condit, for such is his title, from making a most ambitious long distance flight. Mr. Condit, who sees elevating possibilities in the study of chemistry, has constructed an ingenious, gas-filled contrivance, which will project him permanently into the ether. For his destination, he has chosen rather than the conventional mars...