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This annoyed Mrs. Dibble. So did the widely-held opinion that bobtailed, high-stepping English hackneys are more suited to coaching than U. S. standard-bred trotters. Mrs. Dibble discussed this with Trainer Walsh at her 18th-Century man sion near Newburyport, Mass., at her stables in Lenox, Mass., in Lexington and Harrodsburg, Ky. Together they recalled that in 1910 Tobacco Tycoon Paul Sorg had made a record trip in coach-&-four from Manhattan to Atlantic City in 12 hours, 18 minutes. He had used 64 English hackneys, posted along the route two weeks before the run. To beat this...
...somebody don't do something about it, we're going to have a revolution," prophesied Andrew J. "Bossy" Gillis, spectacular mayer of Newburyport when interviewed at his cut-rate filling station...
...this paper," said the vitriolic mayor, changing the subject and pointing at the headlines of the local evening paper, "I've cut every city employee's pay 25 per cent. They can't expect to get as much when we've got the highest tax rate since Newburyport was incorporated. It can't be helped with this Roosevelt as President," Gillis said, as he lapped into an unprintable tribute to the first executive...
...first projects undertaken by the Geographical Institute's aerial photography group was the mapping of the Newburyport, Mass. area for the peabody Museum's survey of the inhabitants of that region. An army of workers was employed to interiew each Newburyport resident, noting his personal history and gathering anthropological data on his skull's dimensions...
Time came to transport the thousands of record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...