Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who wish to park on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton, entrance will be provided at the gate opposite Newell Boat House and at the southwest corner of the field...
Progress in scientific discoveries is doubtless useful and salutary, but it is also fearfully unromantic. This week at Menlo Park, which is Mr. Edison's euphemistic name for his principal factory, the snuffing out of the candle as a source of illumination is to be celebrated by a bloze of (Edison) mazda lamps. It is always melancholy to witness the eclipse of the traditional, and consequently rather sentimental appurtenances of a passing age by the inventions of a more modern, more brilliantly practical...
There is a city ordinance which specifically states that no car may be parked on the streets of Cambridge for any length of time greater than two or three hours, day or night, unless the owner has obtained a permit to park from the City Hall. These permits are practically impossible to obtain...
...some time now, the University authorities, in union with the Police Department and the Fire Department, have been working on a plan which will enable the students to park their cars overnight without the necessity of putting them in a garage, or leaving the lights on. Nothing definite has been decided upon as yet, but it is expected that an arrangement of some kind will be completed before long. In the meantime cars, if parked over night, should be lighted and placed in such a position that they will not obstruct traffic...
...Benedict Monument to Music," bequeathed to the city of Providence by William Curtis Benedict and called "an architectural melody in white marble," has been opened in Roger Williams Park. It has a seating capacity of about 30,000. The elaborate dedication program included Marie Sundelius, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as soloist...