Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collie victory broke a reign of terriers, which had lasted since 1922. To win first place Laund Loyalty had to be judged best collie, best working dog, best brace (teamed with Bellhaven Stronghold II) and best team (with Bellhaven Stronghold II, Bellhaven Brilliancy and Laund Lindbergh of Bellhaven). Second-best-dog was Eden Aristocrat of Wildoaks, a wire-haired fox terrier owned by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bondy, of Golden-bridge, N. Y. Third was Herewithem J. P., a pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney of Pittsburgh; fourth, King Pippin of Greystones, a Pekingese owned by Mrs. C. Hager...
Leonard Seppalla, of Nome, Alaska, oldtime musher, drove his Siberian husky dogs to their third consecutive victory in the New England sled-dog racing championship, last week at Laconia, N. H. Emil St. Goddard, of The Pas, Manitoba, recognized as Seppalla's master as a racer, finished second with a team of wolfhounds which lacked speed and stamina for the three-day trudge over a 128-mile course...
Every night last week groups of workingmen, mostly Italians, stood at the corner of 109th street and Second avenue, Manhattan, gazing across the street at the windows of the City Trust Co. They wondered what, if anything, their bankbooks might be worth. On the windows were posted notices that the state banking department had taken possession of the bank. Back of the closed doors bank examiners checked books and investments and balances. Perhaps the bank was "broke...
Steel. The automotive industry during 1928 became steel's best customer, with building second and railroads third. The following table shows 1928 and 1927 figures for six representative steel companies...
...Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston, according to Manager Engles, is most genuinely musical. He described Boston as "one of the few cities which places musicianship above box-office appeal...