Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass. . . . I painted the head in yellow and black stripes . . . the mouth red . . . the ears blue...
Died. Henry White Cannon, 83, onetime president of Chase National Bank, comptroller of Currency under President Arthur; after a brief illness; in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was a onetime associate of "Empire-Builder" James Jerome Hill, a sponsor of Rear Admiral Peary's expedition to the North Pole...
...Camden, N. J., Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
...Pole Vault Won by Emile Dubiel '87; second, Harding, (A); third. Tacusch (A). Height 12 feet, 8 inches...
...Pole vault Tie for first between John D. Woodberry and Urban (N), 12 feet, 6 in.; third. Thomas F. Piper, 12 feet; fourth, tie between Albert K. Harcewter. Dixon (MIT), and Dunham...