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...farm a mile outside of Stockton, Md., elderly Farmer Harvey Pilchard raised strawberries, potatoes, fruit. He was successful and well-to-do. One night last week he and Mrs. Pilchard sat listening to the radio. Someone knocked on the door. Mr. Pilchard shuffled over, opened it. From the darkness outside, a shotgun blasted into his face, killed him almost instantly. Three Negroes rushed in, demanded Annie Pilchard's money. She gave them her pocketbook, turned and ran upstairs. With cool brutality, one of the Negroes shot her in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: In Worcester County | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Five days after the Pilchard murder, Collick, famished and tattered, ran plump into the arms of police. He and the other prisoners were safely transported to Harford County jail, on the other side of Chesapeake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARYLAND: In Worcester County | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and Boers eat the Sardina sagax. Southern Australians and New Zealanders eat the Sardina neopilchardus. But in the U. S. any small fish of the herring family is a sardine, provided it comes in a can. Official U. S. attitude on the sardine question was clarified last week by Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Said he: "Members of the herring family classed as sardines include not only the true sardine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sardine, Sild, Sprat & Co. | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...Harvard Clubs was awarded to John Carroll Busby 3L., of Salisbury, N. C., and one to Olin Glenn Saxon 2L., of Cambridge. The William Reed scholarships was won by Edmund Whitehead Ogden 2L., of Cambridge, and the scholarship of the Harvard Club of San Francisco was given to Elmer Pilchard Kayser 1L., of San Diego, Cal. Edward Adelbert Doisy 1G., of Champaign, Ill., won the scholarship of the Harvard Club of Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Scholarships Awarded | 1/22/1916 | See Source »

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