Word: sumter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Captain W. A. Tyler, 99, probably sole survivor of the battle of Fort Sumter, onetime superintendent of Arlington Cemetery; to Mrs. Martha Jellison, 70; at the Illinois Soldiers' Home, Quincy...
...many myriads have seen and heard and known George Wilham Mundelein. They have seen him as a Manhattan?? boy undecided whether to enter the army (his grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
...Mayor said that this dance had originated among reveling black bucks and yellow girls, who pranced on spring nights under the white holiday moon along the Charleston waterfront. He asserted loudly that it had reunited forever the nation which was divided when Charleston fired the first shot at Fort Sumter. Having spoken, he sat down. The crowd applauded. A saxophone giggled...
...Chrysler Corporation's insurance is to be handled by the Palmetto Fire Insurance Co. of Sumter, S. C. If it were split up among other companies, much of their present opposition would probably disappear...
...place some time ago, but publicity was just achieved. The five new monuments are: 1) Fort Wood on Bechloe's Island in New York Harbor, the base on which stands the Statue of Liberty; 2) Castle Pinckney on Shutes' Folly Island, a mile from Charleston, S.C., close to Fort Sumter and close to the spot where the first vessel was ever sunk by a submarine (in the Civil War) ; 3) Fort Pulaski, Ga., at the entrance of the Savannah River, taken during the Civil War by Union troops after being pounded to pieces by some of the first rifled cannon...