Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small wonder, therefore, that the Southern Tier was astonished when it heard, last week, that Frank E. Gannett's latest newspaper enterprise was far outside of New York State; was, in fact, way down across the Mason Dixon Line. Many people did not realize what Mr. Gannett was up to, by heading a syndicate to buy the Twin City Sentinel, biggest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. But those who did realize, said: "Well, that just shows you Frank Gannett's vision. He may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...
...Yucatan, Dr. Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason reached the definite conclusion that the Mayas originated in the Mexican highlands and in Guatemala, not being immigrants from Africa or Polynesia as has sometimes been suggested...
...smoked glasses* glance twice at such information as: Several Negroes were included among the "minutemen" of the Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping...
Married. Darwin P. Kingsley Jr., son of the potent president of the New York Life Insurance Co.; to Miss Heywood Mason Butler, of Rumson...
Died. Representative Lawrence J. Flaherty, 47, of California, onetime cement mason; at Washington, D. C., after an operation...