Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...
...Confidence, I asked the way to the next town, and was shown the road to 'Nelli's Aprin' the local metropolis, a village of 150 inhabitauts. I discovered that other settlements in te vicinity were named 'Skylight FiftySix', and Hamstring...
...remained for a local reporter, a former student, of Dr. Mather's at Denison University, to remember that the famous Harvard geologist would be visiting his home at Granville in a few days. He immediately went there with the news of the find to await Dr. Mather's arrival...
...Vocal Club will sing old college songs, a few light classical pieces, and other popular melodies. Its purpose is to each the fundamentals of group singing and keep active the traditional college songs. The Vocal Unit will not take part in any combined concerts but will perform at all local appearances of the Instrumental Clubs...
Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France: "Rustic neighbors of my country estate at Cocherel saw my summer crop of wheat and oats burst mysteriously into flame one midnight last week. Summoned in haste the local fire department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents...