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When Robert Harper founded the weekly Adams Centinel (named for Adams County) in 1800, he bought the Ramage press that went to Franklin Institute last week, loaded it on a wagon, carted it up over the Baltimore Pike to Gettysburg. Sixteen years later Robert Harper was dead, his son, Robert Goodloe Harper, had succeeded him, and the Centinel had become the Sentinel. On June 30, 1863, when Confederate cavalry scouts made their first contact with the Union Army west of Gettysburg, the Sentinel suspended an issue for the only time in its life. Next day the Union forces attacked. After...
...slick cowboy outfit and so do Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...
...Graduate Secretary of the Brooks House claimed knowledge of at least two men who have collected between $1.50 and $4 in three hours with their hard-luck stories. "One of these men is Albert Pike, who is known to several agencies in Boston and Cambridge as a steady and consistent sponger, whose story is invariably convincing," Dennett stated...
Last week Moe Annenberg went fishing in the Pike County lake where Transit Magnate Thomas Eugene Mitten was drowned in 1929. Moses L. Annenberg had no intention of drowning, but he wanted to think over a scheme to start a Camden paper in the fall. It would cost a lot of money, but it might drown David Stern...
...Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan U.S.N.* is the first full-dress biography of a godly, pike-backed salty sailor who in his lifetime (1840-1914) did more than any other to shape the modern navies of the world. In his 40 years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy...