Word: geneseo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emulating Uncle Tom's Cabin's Eliza, a fox fleeing from hounds of the Genesee Valley Hunt near Geneseo, N. Y. last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...
...book begins at Krebs' famous inn at Skaneatles, wanders to Lily Dale and Chautaqua, back to the Genesee country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories...
...greatly interested in the leading paragraph in the Press Department of TIME [Dec. 3] because I was born in Geneseo, N. Y., my father was editor of the Livingston Republican for many years, and so was I for a year or so, and it was in the Republican my first writings got into print...
...about universal fingerprinting, compulsory or voluntary, as an aid to law & order, Vice President Edward C. Johnston of Western Newspaper Union, a feature syndicate serving the rural Press, worked it into a newspaper promotion campaign. With ease he sold the idea to his client Walter B. Sanders, publisher of Geneseo's Leader. Last fortnight the Leader splashed down its front page a two-column invitation to all Geneseans to come to the newspaper office and be fingerprinted, free, by a new process using...
Through last week 1,000 men, women &children- nearly half the population of Geneseo-trooped down Main Street past the Normal Grill and Ulmer's drug store to the corner of Bank Street, then up a narrow flight of stairs to Publisher Sanders' tiny office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits...