Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House Plan is in operation. After living for a week in his new quarters in the cupola of the construction shack of Lowell House the Vagabond officially lays claim to the distinction of "first settler", and offers his less informed readers a report on the actual living conditions in one of the new houses...
...Chicago, last week, a picnic was held for the people who have lived longest in the city. These gathered in a park and held contests among themselves to decide which one was the "Oldest Settler," the greatest ancient...
...meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest settler, and one can't go wrong. Such may be the case but neither can one arrive at any definitely placed objective. And so, in the end, the adventurer is stranded by his fireside, alone with his books and his memories...
...Grenfell, famous Labrador settler who lectured last night at the Phillips Brooks House told a CRIMSON reporter an amusing story of how he was almost shot as a burgler on one of his earlier visits to Cambridge...
...immediate North and West there are over eight hundred million Islanders and Asiatics. Australians, rightly or wrongly, have conceived it to be their duty to hold Australia for the white races. They have been led to this not only by knowledge of the former problems of the carly Australian settler, but also by considerations of the present racial problems of South Africa and the United States. This has led to the much discussed "White Australia" policy. This is the one question on which the various Australian political problems seem to be unanimous...