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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Derby, sportsman and statesman, is the latest peer to sell part of his estates. Last week, for a price said to be in the neighborhood of five million dollars, he disposed of his Bury and Pilkington estates in Lancashire to Messrs. Green of Chesterfield. The estates comprise about 5,000 acres, on which are 50 farms, 500 houses and some 2,000 leaseholds...
...overwhelming odds from Brockton High. Last year the cohorts from the shoe city deadlocked with the Greater Boston team and this year seem likely to outpoint the forces from Medford which received a severe blow to their chances for victory when their captain, Henry Hormel, was injured this week. Latest advices indicate that this powerful sprinter and broad jumper will enter the meet today, but his chances for making anything like the performances expected of him have been greatly lessened...
...latest discovery at Dravrah has revealed to me a most extraordinary phenomenon. In all my travels I have never encountered a fact so surprising as the one I am about to relate to you. I was totally unprepared to find it here, of all places, for what I had seen and heard of these Satellites led me to look upon them in spite of their peculiarities, as a superior breed of men, above the weaknesses of common human nature. The truth is, that almost all of these young men are afflicted with a strange malady which suffuses them with drowsiness...
...Chief leave the congress without learning of the latest, distinctively U.S. contribution to the war on crime. It is an experiment for which Mr. Collier will personally expend $50,000. It is a series of advertisements which are to dominate the traction lines and billboards of New York and perhaps be extended to other cities...
...Margot" Asquith. Following this, "Margot" Asquith (Lady Oxford and Asquith) published her latest book, Persons and Places, one chapter of which deals with American impressions gathered during her last visit to this country...