Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another Uncle, Dr. C. W. Coolidge won third prize in the Buff Plymouth Rock Cockerels class in a poultry show at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. He had but a single entry against 18 prizewinners from the entire country...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
Hopes for a Crimson victory over the formidable Toronto hockey team next Wednesday night, were raised when a greatly improved Harvard team fought stubbornly before bowing to the veteran McGill sextet in the Madison Square Garden rink on Saturday night by a 5 to 4 score. The Canadians were able to claim the victory only after three overtime periods which went scoreless until the final minute of play...
...like the notables in the boxes, were celebrating the formal opening of Madison Square Garden. There have been preliminary events in the new Garden-a six-day bicycle race, some amateur bouts, a championship fight-but the hockey was the fashionable start of Promoter Tex Rickard's entertainment centre. Therefore the notables in the boxes, like the men on the ice, had been led to display an interest in professional hockey, in "Les Canadiens," in the Prince of Wales Cup, which will go to the team which wins the league championship. John Ringling, Rosamond Pinchot, Frank Crowninshield, Mayor Hylan...
Died. Lucien S. Hanks, 87, pioneer banker of Madison, Wis., famed because of his much bruited assertion that Abraham Lincoln once kicked him out of a bed (at the home of William Talman in Janesville, Wis.) in which they had attempted to sleep. Mr. Hanks often said: "That long, gaunt man was so nervous that he twitched and tossed and kicked and snored until, in desperation, I went out into the hall and made a bed on the floor, where I slept the rest of the night...