Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Halle Bros, is one of perhaps a dozen stores known to department store men throughout the U. S. for excellency of merchandise and of service. It is to its selling region (which extends from western New York and Pennsylvania across northern Ohio to Indiana) what B. Altman & Co. and Lord & Taylor are to Manhattan; what Wanamaker's is to Philadelphia; R. H. Stearns to Boston; Marshall Field's to Chicago; White House to San Francisco; Bullock's to Los Angeles; Maison Blanche to New Orleans...
John Brown (who was either a horse thief or a martyr according to one's views on slavery) was not born at Lake Placid and he lived there, or in nearby North Elba, only six years. The region is now better known for its skiing, skating, golf, tennis and dancing facilities, and as a stronghold of Simplified Spelling, than for John Brown's grave on ever-green Mount Elba...
...drama little Bruno, his younger son, straddled one of the oxen. Not until last week, however, did newsgatherers learn the impressive details of germination. . . . Despatches from Forli told that the sprouting shoots of Signer Mussolini "have already done so well that they are considered the best of the whole region. . . ." From the super-sower, super-wheat. Although wheat rust may yet blight the harvest, Fascist editors hinted broadly last week that the tender sproutlings of Il Duce will potently mature until the Ministry of National Economy will delight to honor him with a prize awarded each year to the husbandman...
...addition to these investigations, moving pictures of the birds and Breed Eskimos who inhabit tire region, will be taken. These will be shown in Cambridge and vicinity next fall and winter...
...atempt will then be made on Mount Hooker one of the highest peaks of the region...