Word: mail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holding-up of a Grand Trunk Railway train at 90th street by six bandits who bombed open the mail car and made off with...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Postmaster General to contract for transportation of mail into U. S. possessions and foreign countries by air; sent it to the Senate...
...Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week...
Specialties consisting of piano duets by C. E. Henderson '28 and R. M. Whittemore '29 during the supper intermission will feature this year's festivity. Programs for the event are already in the mail, and the decorating is well under way. The platform for the orchestra is being put up, and the walls are being decorated with Southern smilax. Bert Lowe's 20 piece orchestra will play ten card dances between the start of the dance at 10 o'clock and the supper interval at 12.30 o'clock, each dance consisting of a five-minute fixed dance and two encores...
...nasty trick of war, a "big Wop from Peoria," Tony Rickey, became the hero of this story. In boyhood, he was a bootblack. In youth, he founded the National Bug-Killer Co., which rented to thousands of farmers, by mail, a machine guaranteed to kill each & every insect or worm. The machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon...