Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half years ago, funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago for a great reformer of a great reform era. Two little boys and two little girls stood up, pointed to the coffin, recited: "Miss [Lucy Page] Gaston, we thank you for what you have done for us," and then repeated the "Clean Life Pledge" which Miss Gaston had taught. Miss Gaston's body was cremated, according to her wishes...
...flamboyant Prohibitionist like Carrie Nation, who tossed cuspidors at bartenders. Her method was different, and so was her subject. Cigarets were to Lucy Page Gaston what alcohol was to Carrie Nation. Miss Gaston was founder and Superintendent of the Anti-Cigaret League of America. Once she wrote a letter to Queen Mary of England, reproving her, if press reports had been correct, for enjoying a cigaret after luncheon. But the climax of Miss Gastori's work came in Kansas, where she, more than anyone else, was responsible for the agitation which put a stringent anti-cigaret law on the statute...
...Paris, last Week, one Gaston Goethe, redoubtable postcard peddling Alsace-Lorrainer, was jailed for assulting simultaneously a German who had called him a Frenchman and a Frenchman who had called him a German...
...Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, Republican, art-col- lector, who accepts no pay from the state for his services, was re- elected. He ran more than 100,000 votes ahead of his defeated ticketmate, Senator Butler. Governor Fuller's opponent, William A. Gaston, potent lawyer-banker-businessman, has a wife who aids him. She wrote and, at her own expense, advertised the following letter on the day before election: "This is my last chance to do something for my husband in his campaign. . . I am proud of him. . . . It would take something far different from the Governorship...
...first is that in the campaign from which the smoke has not yet had chance to clear a number of prominent participants have been men of independent means, men obviously not in the political field to reap monetary harvest. In the immediate locality both gubernatorial candidates, Fuller and Gaston, and Senator Butler come under this category. In an adjacent state the names of Wadsworth and Mills suggest families of considerable financial prominence...