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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bull was suggested to Tobaccoman Green by the bull's neck on the seal of Durham, England, trade-mark of Coleman's mustard. Three smokers of Bull Durham were James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...potent competitor: Bull Durham. Ever since North Carolina's famed "bright yellow" tobacco had been discovered, by chance, in 1852, the pipe and chewing tobacco trade had been booming, and John R. Green had made his trade-mark world-famed.* It was Buck Duke who urged that the family go into the cigaret business, then undeveloped. They employed the first successful cigaret-making machine, got one William T. O'Brien, a bright young mechanic, to perfect it for them. Swift thereafter was the rise of W. Duke Sons & Co. and the formation in 1890 of American Tobacco Co. with...
...entry list was amazingly big - 228 - but the heat helped cut it to 189 actual starters on the 26-mi. run. They jogged along the road from Hopkinton to Wellesley - the halfway mark - and at Wellesley Square the college girls came out to wave to them and runners who still felt spry waved back. But the last half of the course was the real test...
Died. George Henry Hathaway, 86, president since 1903 of Redpath Lyceum Bureau Inc., one of the oldest chautauqua bureaus; after a fall last fortnight; in Boston, Mass. He booked as lecturers Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, Humorist Mark Twain, Preacher Henry Ward Beecher; Singers Liza Lehmann and Lillian Nordica...
Though they have yet to make their mark in the world of art, the Princes of Reuss (Germany) are the delight of genealogists. More spectacular is the fact that ever since the 14th Century all male members of the House of Reuss have been named Henry and numbered serially. There are two systems of numerology. The elder branch of the House of Reuss names its Henrys from 1 to 100, then starts in with 1 again. This branch is now extinct in the male line. The first and second limbs of the junior branch name their Henrys according...