Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps of the Senate, Dr. J. E. Middour, assistant headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, received from Joseph M. Speer, director of industrial education in Pittsburgh, 20 prize birdhouses made by 20 schoolboys in a contest conducted by the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. They will be placed in trees on the Mercersburg campus in memory of a onetime student?Calvin Coolidge Jr. ¶ In the south gardens of the White House, crocuses bloomed, hyacinths budded. ¶ James Coupal, M.D. and Major U. S. A., the President's personal physician, told the President he must cut out "handshaking" His patient obeyed. Swiftly the word...
...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit?was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...
...Pittsburgh...
...into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said. So the two young hoboes ate, saw President McKinley...
These papers were: Akron Press, Baltimore Post, Birmingham, Post, Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen, Denver Express, El Paso Post, Evansville Press, Fort Worth Press, Houston Press, Knoxville News, Indianapolis Times, Memphis Press, New Mexico State Tribune, Oklahoma News, Pittsburgh Press, San Diego Sun, San Francisco Daily News, Terre Haute Post, Toledo News Bee, Washington Daily News, Youngstown Telegram, Kentucky Post...