Word: janning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jan. 3-10-World's three-cushion billiard championship tournament in Manhattan...
...Jan. 4-First game of the Intercollegiate League season. Yale v. Pennsylvania at Philadelphia...
...Jan. 17, 18-Third annual sled dog derby, Lake Placid...
...Jan. 17-25-Twenty-fifth National Motor Boat Show, at Manhattan...
...Florence, Kan., Shamus O'Brien, postmaster, was officially told that he must sell $800 worth of stamps by Jan. 1 or have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash...