Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul. Overbrook, Pennsylvania, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
Leavings. Mr. Coolidge left stacks of photographs autographed for memento-beggers (he signed 256 at one sitting); 553 handshakes on his last day in office; two last button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business...
Died. Col. William Stewart Simkins, 86, of Austin, Tex., professor-emeritus of law at the University of Texas; in Austin. On the morning of April 12, 1861 so the story goes, a Confederate sentry on duty near Charleston Harbor fired an alarm signal which opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The sentry was William Stewart Simkins...
...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, D.D., Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul. Overbrook Pennsylvania, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning...