Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...live only one year, its guarantees will stand for five years. Such was the financial aid devised by self-reliant New England businessmen to restore the vitality of private enterprise. At Montpelier, Vermont's legislators were, awed by the damage their capital had suffered from the raging Winooski River. Going into a special session, they listened to John E. Weeks as he read from the 46th Psalm "Therefore we will not fear....though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted...
...Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...exhibition of Japanese screens done during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries will open in the Fogg Museum tomorrow. About 12 screens will be shown: among them is one specially interesting example of seventeenth century art, showing holiday-makers watching fans float on the Uji River. There is also a screen by Bunrin which is done in pure ink, without colour. Works by Bunrin are hardly available in Japan today as they are esteemed very highly...
...church, located at Riverside Drive and 122nd St., will cover approximately 22,500 square feet of land. Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be on Riverside Drive through a bell tower, 300 feet in height. The cost will be about $4,000,000. Its seating capacity will...