Word: fredericksburg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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December 26, Dupont Hotel, Wilmington, Del.; December 27, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C.; December 28, Opera House, Fredericksburg, Va.; December 29, Carolina Theater, Pinehurst, N. C.; December 30, Academy of Music, Wilmington, N. C.; January 1, High School, Charlotte, N. C.; January 2, O. Henry Hotel, Queensboro, Va.; January 3, Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia...
...Caller. Mr. Albert Petsch of Fredericksburg, Tex. is a representative in the state legislature. One morning last week he walked into the executive offices of Governess "Ma" Ferguson in a businesslike manner. He had a right to walk in with self-confidence, for he was a leader of the friends of the Governess last spring in securing the passage of a bill which restored to her husband the civil rights which he lost when as Governor he was impeached and removed from office...
...Born 1841, son of the famed poet-doctor of the same name, Oliver Wendell Holmes served three years in the Civil War as an officer of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded in the chest at Ball's Bluff, in the neck at Antietam, in the foot at Fredericksburg. He served 20 years as Associate and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, before being called to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Roosevelt...
...Passed a bill directing that an inspection be made of the battlefields of Fredericksburg and Spottsylvania, with a view to preserving and marking historical sites...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...