Word: paged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue to which I refer was that of Friday Jan. 28. There on the front page in the left hand column was given prominence to the most beautiful bit of balderdash on the subject of alleged "dirty football" by Princeton, that has yet appeared. I say this with all due respect to the efforts in that direction of Messrs. Hubbard and Hardwick. One, Braden, who entered Harvard in the autumn of 1920 and graduated in 1926, accuses the 1919 Princeton team of having, intentionally and with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost...
...Note--We refer Mr. Taylor to the editoral on page 2 of the number of the Crimson which printed Braden's story...
...half years ago, funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago for a great reformer of a great reform era. Two little boys and two little girls stood up, pointed to the coffin, recited: "Miss [Lucy Page] Gaston, we thank you for what you have done for us," and then repeated the "Clean Life Pledge" which Miss Gaston had taught. Miss Gaston's body was cremated, according to her wishes...
...flamboyant Prohibitionist like Carrie Nation, who tossed cuspidors at bartenders. Her method was different, and so was her subject. Cigarets were to Lucy Page Gaston what alcohol was to Carrie Nation. Miss Gaston was founder and Superintendent of the Anti-Cigaret League of America. Once she wrote a letter to Queen Mary of England, reproving her, if press reports had been correct, for enjoying a cigaret after luncheon. But the climax of Miss Gastori's work came in Kansas, where she, more than anyone else, was responsible for the agitation which put a stringent anti-cigaret law on the statute...
Died. Edward Page Mitchell, 74, at New London, Conn., of cerebral hemorrhage. He was for 50 years associated with the New York Sun, on which he won his place at the age of 23 by writing letters to Editor Charles A. Dana from his home, Bath, Me. Editor Dana invited him to work at the then fabulous salary of $50 per week. This rose to $20,000 a year during the many years that Mr. Mitchell penned the Sun's leading editorials, famed for their tart penetration. When the late Publisher Munsey purchased the Sun (1916) he retained Mr. Mitchell...