Word: pompton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That year at Pompton Plains, N. J., was born John Richard Voorhis, scion of an old Dutch family. At the age of one he was taken to Manhattan, to the village that was Greenwich Village. He sat on his great-grandfather's knee, heard eyewitness stories of the Revolution. He became a carpenter, built a mahogany stairway for Citizen A. T. Stewart's store (now Wanamakers...
...well. Alfred Emanuel Smith dropped in. Commissioner Voorhis gave him a cigar marked "John R. Voorhis." To other guests went other presents: To the men, pencils, to the women, fans, all marked in gilt: "1829? JOHN R. VOORHIS?1929." There was a birthday cake, two poems, 100 roses from Pompton Plains. Commissioner Voorhis was elected a member of the young Democrats club. For the first time in his life he cried in public. Police Commissioner Whalen joshed him because the police department had no Voorhis fingerprints, added: "I thought that in 100 years, any man would stub...
...March 4, 1921, Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes. N.J.. bore a son, which like many others born that day, was christened Warren Harding. On March 4, 1929, the same Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes, N.J., bore her second son. This infant, like others born that day, was named Herbert Hoover...
After leaving the bridge continue to the traffic circle. Here turn left and continue to the next two road intersections where a right turn is made in each case, and continue through Bear Mountain Park, over The Seven Lakes Drive, through Tuxedo, Sloatsburg, Ramapo, Suffern, Oakland, Pompton Lakes, Pompton Station, Pompton Plains, Pequannlock, Lincoln Park, Towaco, Boonton, Parrisippany, Littleton, Morris Plains, Morristown, Bernardsville, Far Hills, Bedminster, Somerville, Harlingen, Princeton, Lawrenceville, Trenton, Parkland, Oakford and Trappe into Philadelphia, the destination...
Died. Wolf, 10, son of Lad and Lady, collies made famous by the stories of Albert Payson Terhune, at Pompton Lakes, N. J. Taking his usual evening stroll, Wolf was near the railroad station when a pariah dog got in front of an onrushing express. Wolf drove him from the tracks, but was himself killed...