Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With grave simplicity and courtesy the Municipal Council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz gathered last week in their still, solemn council room. On a table was a check for $100,000 left "to the poor Jews of Bydgoszcz," by one Mrs. Leonard Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With gravity the Council deliberated, then ordered that a polite note be penned to the executors of the will refusing the money, stating that "there are no poor Jews in Bydgoszcz...
...Club also extends the use, of its club rooms at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, to undergraduates in town for the holidays...
...bites a dog, student actions, particularly careless ones, receive ridiculous publicity in comparison to the actions of other men. This latest undesirable criticism, neither unbiased nor constructive, is easily recognizable as more evidence of the readiness of Boston and Cambridge to betray their latent antagonism in a town-and-gown alignment which is marked most distinctly on occasions like the present...
When the telephone officials in Mexico Gity decided that inhabitants of the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mex., would have to pay 5? extra to call the citizens of Laredo, Tex., the inhabitants of Nuevo Laredo became annoyed with the telephone company and took thought for a revenge. Three hundred of them, last week, removed their receivers from their hooks and left them there, thus paralyzing the service...
...Carpathians. German soldiers grinning and eating apples as they marched to an imaginary banquet in Paris, airplane battles, mine explosions, Von Hindenburg chewing his mustache, the Kaiser, with his dwarfish, withered arm held sideways, looking gingerly through a telescope, Russians annihilating a last nest of snipers in a taken town; you find to your surprise that diagrams can be more exciting than even such an excellent War-picture as The Big Parade...