Word: hartford
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Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
Frank McMinn Chambers '30, of Port Arthur, Texas; John Emigh '30, of Augusta, Georgia; Richard Orvis Grisdale '31, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Grenville Ross Holden '31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Leslie Clare Warren '29, of Hartford, Michigan, are those Harvard men who will be entered for consideration in the 1929 election, which will take place on December...
Born in Cambridge, Mass., son of a Universalist pastor, Otis Skinner soon moved with his parents to Hartford, Conn. There he sketched passers-by on the streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading...
Battalino v. Routis. In Connecticut, to make draws unlikely, fights are scored by points instead of round by round. A fighter can win a maximum number of five points in each round, points for being the most aggressive, for landing the cleanest punches. In Hartford little Christopher Battalino, local boy with black curly hair, scored 75 points to 56 and won the world's featherweight championship from Windmill André Routis by holding Routis' whirling arms when he got close and hitting him when he backed away...
Married. John Coolidge, 23, of New Haven, Conn., New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. clerk, Major in the .Connecticut National Guard, son of onetime (1923-29) President & Mrs. Calvin Coolidge; to Florence Trumbull, 24, of Plainville, Conn., daughter of Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut; at Plainville...