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...jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and lost. To add to the illusion, a clatter of old time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge had postponed a 30 day sentence for violation of liquor laws that he might show his animal, Halerood...
...hours, his two dogs watched William Joyce, aged 4, of Scranton, Pa., sinking into a pile of culm (coal refuse). When William was up to his neck in culm, the dogs looked at each other knowingly, scampered away, tugged at a workman's coat. Workman and dogs sped back to the culm. "Take the mud out of my eyes," said William when rescued...
...eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state...
...animals to the Government, which might have preserved them by buying the Island for a national park but did not, owing to Congressional apathy, Mr. Leonard announced a buffalo hunt. First to arrive was none other than the international president of all the Kiwanis Clubs, Ralph A. Amerman of Scranton, Pa., with his brother Edward and a third big game hunter, J. O. Beebe of Omaha. Mounted on tough cayuses, guided by William Powell, astute Indian, attended by four cowboys, the four sportsmen were to hunt until each had made one kill in true pioneer fashion (shooting from the saddle...
...Lord of Tarrytown, N. Y., first man for Wolf's Head; and of Van Buren Taliaferro of Manhattan, first for Elihu Club. The even greater honors of being 15th and last man "tapped" for the four societies (in the order named) fell respectively to Philip W. Bunnell of Scranton, Pa., Hannibal Hamlin of Brooklyn, James G. Butler of Hartford, Conn., and George F. Scherer* of Washington, D. C. John J. Pierson of Manhattan had the hardihood to refuse the accolades of Wolf's Head and Elihu Club, preferring to await election to "Bones" or "Keys"- which...