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...Baltimore, Western Maryland's Bill Shepherd sent the total number of points he has scored this season to 133, biggest in the U. S., with two touchdowns and one conversion against Georgetown...
...city-owned Cincinnati Southern, a 338-mi. road between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, has returned to the city nearly $65,000,000 in revenue since its completion in 1879. Its cost: $30,000,000. Optimistically the city last week began negotiations to acquire the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad...
...staff of the Library of Congress. I was a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service for a number of years and am a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Roudybush's sole distinction, academic or otherwise, is a Bachelor of Foreign Service degree without honors from the Georgetown Foreign Service School and his school is a one man show...
...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...
...year-old Georgetown boy named Vernon Vaughan found a frayed magenta 1¢ British Guiana stamp on an old family letter. More as a favor to the youngster than anything else, a collector named Neil R. McKinnon bought it for six shillings. Ten years later McKinnon sold his entire collection to Thomas Ridpath of Liverpool for $600. By that time the 1¢ British Guiana stamp had become known and Count Phillipe la Renotiere von Ferrari, biggest stamp collector in Europe, bought it from Ridpath for $750. In 1922 the Ferrari collection was sold in Paris. The late Arthur M. Hind...