Word: fors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000...
At shipping points all over the country, 100 inspectors for the U. S. Department of Agriculture were busily grading turkeys as raisers brought them in from the runs. Last year 200,000 birds were graded. This year 500,000 were expected to pass governmental scrutiny. Shrewd bird-buying housewives looked...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere...
Manning's Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at...
Never to be caught out on a point of church law, Bishop Manning consulted 77-year-old lawyer George Zabriskie, for 25 years Chancellor of the Diocese. Then he wrote Dr. Reiland a letter forbidding the service. The letter referred to the book of common prayer, last court of appeal...