Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history. I remember when he became interested in a certain memory system which I was trying to master at the same time. It is said that while experimenting with it he committed to memory the front page of the New York Sun on a train between New York and Hartford, and recited it to his wife on his arrival. He was always training his mind. No young person need stay away from college with the idea of saying time and taking a short cut to literary achievement. The way may be even longer...
Died. Charles Hopkins Clark, 77, famed editor of the Hartford Courant and Associated Press director; at Hartford, Conn. Mr. Clark once refused his choice of an ambassadorship or a Cabinet post under President Taft...
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Last week there were two championship fights - one won by the challenger, the other by the cham pion. Featherweight. In Hartford, Conn., a small ugly Jew, Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, champion, struck a small ugly Latin, Robert Garcia, chal lenger, in the ribs with his fist and knocked him down. The Italian got up. Kaplan administered a long left hook. The Italian fell down, got up. Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed...
Whizzing New Englandwards from Hadley Field (New Brunswick, N. J.) the first New York-to-Boston plane stopped off with mail for Hartford, Conn. Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, chairman of the board of the company contracting for the new route, left his busy desk in the State House to follow the mail-carrier to Boston in another plane, where a trio of Navy pilots flew out to meet them...