Word: junction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
...Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware in the boom mining towns of Colorado. When he visited Germany again in 1898 he brought back a bag of beet seed, helped set up Colorado's first beet mill at Grand Junction. Great Western today operates 22 factories, 13 of them in Colorado, produces annually 10,000,000 bags (100 Ib. per bag). Charles Boettcher is vice president and member of the executive committee. His son Claude Kedzie Boettcher is a Great Western director as well as board chairman...
...obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned in Federal Court. Judge John P. Barnes promptly announced that bail would be $200,000. Insull stiffened. Said Junior...
...Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers frantically trying to board the L. & N. Truly a dead hand governs the situation at Junction City, in the very geographical centre of Old Kentucky. Lesson: Beware, Hotel Clerks, lest you entertain angels unawares! COL. CLARENCE E. WOODS...
...last moment and one, the famed pointer Schoolfield, only dog ever to win three great stakes on quail, pheasant and prairie chicken, died suddenly of ptomaine poisoning. For a generation the national championships have been run over the broad acres of Col. Hobart Ames's plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn. Tall, old Col. Ames this year had new stories to tell his guests about the curious cherry-red quail on his preserve (TIME, March 13, 1933), now recognized by the Department of Agriculture as a distinct species. Ever since 1909, when Manitoba Rap began the fashion, the national champion...