Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reilly of Jersey City, N. J., stole three lanterns, was arrested by three policemen, was convicted on the testimony of three boys, was sentenced to three months in the county jail, was placed in cell No. 3. Numerologists also pointed out that he has three letters in his first name...
...France, snuggled his plane too close to his native Naugatuck, and was the first man booked in Connecticut police stations for violating the aviation law which prohibits flying below 2,000 feet over population centres. Acosta plead guilty, apologized, went to jail. Meanwhile sheriffs hurried up from New Jersey to complicate his chancery. Warrants were out for his arrest. The Splitdorf Electric Co. complained that Acosta owed $4,445 for electrical equipment in a plane with which he planned to try for the endurance record. A sheriff's writ attached the plane. Acosta climbed in by night and flew...
...sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Statistician, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas J. O'Connor, President of Purity Baking Co., Chicago; Benjamin Ernstein, President of Barnard Phillips & Co., Bankers, New York; C. K. Corbin, Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts...
...jagged sluice of the Lehigh River cuts through the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania. Thither from great passenger stations and greater freight terminals on New York Harbor run the rails of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, clean as carving knives. Across north central New Jersey they go?through manufacturing city butted against manufacturing city...
Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...