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There is old Maum Hannah, squatter, who asked the Lord what to do when a white-trash gentleman built a house on her land and was going to make her tear down her cabin?who got a sign from the Lord, and burnt that house to white fine ashes, such as fell out of her corncob pipe when she prayed. There is Killdee who ploughed on Green Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

Divorced. John L. Kellogg (toasted corn flakes) by Hannah Peterson Kellogg; at Battle Creek. She charged extreme cruelty, was not contested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...Yale at "In home" scored three times and was the individual star of the game. The summary: Harvard 1927 Yale 1927 Kelsey g. g. Crissey Burden p. 1.h. Hopkins Maisel c.p. o.h. Herman Simpson 1d. la. Lynch Backus 2d. 2a. Withington Bennett 3d 3a. Keller Kullman c. c. Hannah Force 3a. 3d. Smith Stearns 2a. 2d, Hogue Murphy 1a. 1d. Mansfield Sicherman o.h. c.p. McKee Lyall l.h. p. Ryan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI CUBS SWAMP FRESHMAN TEAM | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...just out of College, keen to gather a collected of books which eventually exceeded in size and importance every other colonial library of the time, purchased 96 of these duplicates. Most of these books remained in the possession of his son, Samuel, and the latter's daughter, Hannah, well into the nineteenth century, when they passed into the possession of the American Antiquarian Society. It is this Society which yesterday gave them over to the Harvard Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETURN 13 OLD BOOKS TO HARVARD LIBRARY | 4/10/1924 | See Source »

...place of the Grand National in British thought. In 1868, when the young lord was expelled from Oxford for keeping a racing stud, he proclaimed to his young friends three ambitions: to marry the richest woman in England; to be Prime Minister: to win the Grand National. He married Hannah, only daughter of Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild. He became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister in 1894. He won the Derby three times. He is alive today (one year younger than Chauncey Depew) with one chief regret: no horse of his ever won the Grand National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Grand National | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

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