Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marches. Pipers could choose from a list of tunes, were judged on their spirited playing, marching time (85-90 beats per minute), upright carriage. Winner: Pipe Major Stephen McKinnon of Montreal...
...mail and passenger line between Cleveland and Louisville, by way of Akron, Columbus, Springfield, Dayton and Cincinnati. Colonial Western Air Lines, Universal affiliate through Aviation Corp., flies mail and occasionally passengers by way of Buffalo to Albany, where connections are made with the Canadian Colonial Airways New York-Montreal line. Thompson Aeronautical Corp. carries passengers by amphibians to Detroit, and mail beyond to Ann Arbor, Bay City, Kalamazoo, Chicago. At Cleveland it also has a taxi service. Stout Air Services also operate a Cleveland-Detroit passenger line. Clifford Ball has a mail line to Pittsburgh and a passenger line through...
...Already Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. makes gas-electric buses (to save gear shifting in traffic) and oil-electric rail cars (which need neither third rail lines nor great power plants). Recently Canadian National Railways put into service a great oil-electric locomotive on its Toronto-Montreal route. *For a confirmed report of Mr. Smith's newest occupation...
Norma Shearer was having a good time at débutante parties in Montreal when, in 1921, her family lost most of its money. She and her mother and her sister Athol went to Manhattan and lived in a furnished room on 9th Avenue and 59th Street, eating their meals in delicatessens and out of paper bags set out on the top of their trunk. Norma posed for advertisements, worked now and then as an extra. After Lewis J. Selznick gave her a good part in The Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife...
...York State by the State Boxing Commission. The Bulow contract called for a fight with Phil Scott, third-rate Britisher. If Schmeling fights Scott he may thereafter fight in New York. If he does not, the Schmeling-Sharkey world's championship fight may be in Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Chicago. Track. Last week's was the ninth track meet between Yale-Harvard and Oxford-Cambridge. Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle...