Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chestnut Hill Academy...
...morning last week Publisher Gannett rose very early to open the doors of the Elmira (N. Y.) Star-Gazette himself. It was a gesture of sentiment. Twenty-five years ago he, onetime newsboy, bought a half interest in the old Gazette from the late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...
Jack Sharkey, heavyweight boxer, driving his automobile near Brookline, Mass., stopped at a hail of distress near Chestnut Hill reservoir. From an automobile partly submerged in the water he pulled one Mrs. Henry Robbins and one Joseph E. McMorrow who had been teaching the woman to drive when she lost control...
...houses in these communities were not mere hovels but substantial wooden structures--what we should call today small cottages; they were generally equipped with little pit-like cellars, which some times contained a wooden bench beside a firepace. The dwellings were grouped closely together on top of the hill, but in the middle was an open space, perhaps a place of public assembly. Around the cluster of buildings was a stout stockade of heavy wooden posts, and in this were elaborately contrived gates, with special provision for defence. At some time the inhabitants apparently decided they needed more room...
Thought much has been found out about the residents of Homolka while they were still iving, the dead still remain a mystery. Almost the only burials so far discovered consist of a row of skeletons found on the top of the hill. These, however, proved to be the remains of invading Slavs, who had been interred there nearly 3000 years after the abandonment of the fortress. A search for the original cemetery will be one of the special objects of the work to be carried out there...