Word: portland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Portland's Bank...
Everybody in the room realized the significance of those words, for they knew the story of an agreement which a certain Dr. J. Allen Gilbert of Portland, Ore., had made with his wife just before she died eight years ago. Both had been interested in spiritualism. While the woman lay ill they made a pact that if she died she would try to communicate with him through a medium. To defeat fakery, they fixed upon a countersign, wrote it down, sealed it in an envelope. It consisted of the date of Dr. Gilbert's birth, of his wife...
Alston Hurd Chase of Salem; Eugene Eisenmann of New Orleans, La.; Sumner Wilson Elton of Dorchester; Milton Irving Kats of Brooklyn, N. Y.; George Thomas Major of Easthampton; Norman Warren Schur of Beashmont; Lewis Hyman Weinstein of Portland, Me.; Lenson Arnold Weissberger of New York City...
...Nichols, who prepared for college at the high school of his native city, Portland, Me was the so of a New England sea captain, Edwin T. Nichols. He entered Harvard in 1895, and steered clear of most extra-curriculum activities while in college. He did win note as a boxer of merit, and to this day boxing has been the means of the Mayor-elect receiving his daily exercise...
...Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Portland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Philadelphia, San Francisco have had a greater number of murders than in the same period...