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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mountain Streams. The official death list of the two-month flood of the Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky...
...Mayday twilight O'er the bright skies pearl-coloured clouds float through the emerald space, While on the shore the wavelets Lightly take hands, rise and subside, dance like enamoured naiads. Into such a scene on the last day of May roared the poet in his speed boat. Like a mad modernist, scoffing at his own lyrics, Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed...
...also on the main floor, a small accessions room is pro- vided in which new material may be shown before its final placement in the collection. To the rear are the library and photographic rooms, in both of which the stacks, offices, and store rooms are supplemented by additional space in the basement. There is still space for 60,000 books and 80,000 photographs
...blaze is believed to have been caused by a match carelessly thrown from the window into the narrow space dividing the frame building of the Traymore from the brick structure of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Flames suddenly burst through the wall of the restaurant and sent the diners scattering to the street. Firemen fought for half an hour to get the blaze under control...
...held from 5.30 to 7.30 o'clock on June 21 at the Phillips Brooks House is well up to the 1926 average. Last year the affair proved to be very popular, well over 400 persons attending. In case of good weather the spread will be held in the space between Holden Chapel and the Phillips Brooks House, which is available for the first time in several years. If it should rain, the whole affair will be moved indoors...