Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earliest pieces of temperance propaganda in the "History of Liquor" collection of the Baker Library is the above time-table of the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway, which was printed by R. H. McDonald and Company of New York City about...
...railway ran but two trains a day, from Sobriety to Dead River or Perdition, and the advertisement states that "Accidents by Collisions are entirely avoided, as no uptrains are run over the road." The train left Sobriety at 5 o'clock and by 8 o'clock had passed through Sippington, Liarsville, and Guzzler's Junction to Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium...
...there are to be one or two or three "small college" groups of buildings erected in the near future and placed probably along the river front, from the Freshman dormitories eastwards, a splendid site will be available for the new Church Situated on the Memorial Driveway, on the banks of the Charles, it can be given a worthy and imposing setting...
...other consideration be of some weight? If placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...
Efforts are being made to locate the mate of the tooth, and it is hoped that other remains of the monstrosity will be uncovered. The erosion of the river bank at the point where the tusk was found, was most fortunate, as it would not have been discovered otherwise, due to the depth at which it was buried...