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...Some one was telling her she had to go to California the next week ... by airplane . . . stopping overnight in Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City ... all expenses paid . . . $50 spending money . . . See America First . . . glorious . . . winner . . . congratulations . . . 12,000 contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling why he or she wanted to visit California, a free trip by air would be given by a Miss Lydia...
That night in the waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...course will be about one and three-quarters miles long, and will wind around outside of the Soldiers Field enclosure. The domitory which the winning team represents will be credited with five points in the competition for the fall athletic trophy. The captains of the three teams are: Gove, A. C. Coolidge Jr., Smith, J. W. Teele, Standish, H. L. Smyth...
...Nightingale and Lucas played well for 1915 and the team as a whole showed much improvement. HARVARE 1915. BROOKLYN. Schroeder, g. g., Koster Little, p. i.h., Copper Kelley, Robinson, c.p. o.h., Bergstrom Rossbach, 1d. 1a., Quenz Catton, 2d. 2a., Marshall Wilder, 3d. 3a., Campbell Wood, Merriam, c. c., Gove Wiener, Schulman, 3a. 3d., Burroughs, Comiskey Nightingale, 2a. 2d., Holloran Lucas, 1a. 1d., Cusack J. Fleming, o.h. c.p., Hollman C. Fleming, i.h. p., Mallory
...recent meeting of the Business School Club the following officers were elected: president, A. H. Whitman 1G.B.; vice-president, K. C. Wallace 1G.B.; secretary, J. C. Emison 1G.B.; treasurer, A. C. Gove...