Word: southport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Elmer Harmon ("Jede-diah Tingle"), 66, famed philanthropist and installment-realtor; in Southport, Conn. ; after a long illness. Overtly, studiously, he gave money through his Harmon Foundation ; anonymously, capriciously, he gave under the name Jedediah Tingle...
...annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...
...with George Oliver May, wealthy Manhattan accountant, last week gave a trophy and prizes for the first intercollegiate yacht race. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, in Norwegian eight-metre yachts, borrowed from the Pequot Yacht Club, raced a 6.9 mile course off Southport, Conn. Princeton's boat won the cup; each member of the crew a silver ashtray...
...Southport, Conn., June 14--Princeton won the second of the triangular yacht races among the Tiger, Yale, and Harvard crews here this afternoon. Today's victory was the second straight for the Princeton crew and practically assures the Tiger sailors of first place in the series. The race was held on a ten and three-tenths mile course, with the three crews racing in eight meter boats owned by members of the Pequot Yacht Clug, of Southport, under whose auspices the series is being conducted...
Engaged. E. Witherbee Black, son of Witherbee Black, of Southport, Conn., president of Black Starr & Frost (jewelry, trophies); to Miss Ruth Dean Montgomery of Manhattan...