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...addressed a letter to TIME on letterhead of the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Mr. Knapp (newsstand buyer) has never registered at the Drake; is unknown to Mr. Drake and to Drake employes and to frequenters of the Drake lobby. His letter (mailed in New York) prompted H. C. Wood of Germantown, Pa., last week to write...
...Leeds of Germantown, Pa., writes in an especially priggish view. I can visualize little Leeds happy at the thought that writing you was a "good deed" (or is their phrase "good turn"?). At any rate let us hear from little Leeds as to whether he charged up his letter as a "turn...
...Germantown, Philadelphia...
...always treated them well; there are 60,000 there. The German Mennonites fared less happily; many emigrated in 1786 to Russia, by invitation of Catherine II, who granted military exemption. This grant having been rescinded in 1870, large numbers of the faithful came to the U. S. (where a Germantown, Pa., colony existed as early as 1683), spread to Nebraska and the southwestern states; others went to Manitoba. The U. S. Mennonites, 91,000 in number, have become prosperous and content; the Canadians have lately had trials. Though the government throughout the War stood by its promise of non-conscription...
With a big grass-stain on his white flanneled knee, William Tilden, champion of the world, limped over to the umpire's stand and wiped Bis bleak face with a towel. It was the third set and thirteenth game of his match against Rene Lacoste, at Germantown, and he was a game behind...