Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tyson (Dem.) ............... Tenn. ....Shields...
...Uptown Lions' Club of Chicago, endorsing the observance of the third Sunday in October as Father's Day, an idea Mr. Meek originated four years ago; to Henry Ford, acknowledging Mr. Ford's withdrawal of an offer to lease Government property at Muscle Shoals, Tenn. (see Page 5) ; to Commander Marion Eppley, National Chairman of the Navy League, approving the observance of Oct. 27, the birthday of President Roosevelt, as Navy...
...Tenn. L. D. Tyson Judge H. B. Lindsay...
...Geers, at 73, was the great figure of the U. S. trotting turf. He will remain its great legend. He trained, drove, loved horses from early boyhood, which began in Lebanon, Wilson County, Tenn. He brought more horses under the wire first than any other driver in the history of light harness racing. Their winnings aggregated nearly two million. He was a seasoned driver in the high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic tire...
...such songs are to be found in print. They have been perpetuated chiefly by touring companies of Negro singers. Of these companies the two most famed are those sent out from Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Ga., and from Fisk University, in Nashville, Tenn., to raise funds for the support of Negro education at these two places. Fifty years ago the original band of Fisk Jubilee Singers serenaded Queen Victoria. If King George and Queen Mary attend a garden party to be given by Lady Astor, they, too, will be serenaded by Fiskians now abroad on tour...