Word: newtowne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen at Chicago, but entered for the Manhattan show, is an extraordinary brown stallion named Sir Gilbert. Sir Gilbert is 17, is nearly blind in one eye. Stephen E. Budd of Newtown. Conn., bought him five years ago as a farm dray taught him to jump. Currently Sir Gil bert alternates between fox-hunting and hauling a manure cart...
...hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, about 15 miles west of Philadelphia, is Newtown Square. On a farm near there dwells a woman who last week felt moved to address the world. Settling her bulky frame at a desk she penned some thousand words, made a dozen typewritten copies, signed each in a bold hand: ALEXANDRE L. TOLSTOY, mailed them to various newspapers and the League of Nations. Then she felt "happier than in a long time...
Aware that Countess Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the late great Russian Novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, had been occupying the Newtown Square farm (rent free) for about a year, Philadelphia editors printed the letter in full. Excerpts...
...Countess-on-a-farm piqued the curiosity of half a dozen picture editors. Arrived at Newtown Square the cameramen found a ratty, dilapidated farmhouse, 200 years old, no electricity, no plumbing. They found the Countess a broad-beamed woman of middle age, with hazel eyes behind pince-nez glasses, and greying hair pulled back from her high forehead. Clad in a wool dress and old sweater she showed the newsmen the chicken house which she keeps clean, the wood she had chopped and the cow which follows her about like a pet. Countess and cow posed...
...John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...