Word: township
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that her sin found her out-or rather, Ernest had found her out-Milly resolved upon expiation. The united Botts offered her the opportunity. Determined that Titford township should not interpret Ernest's bequest as a Bott scandal, the family council decided that each in turn should harbor and make much of Milly. Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated...
...Minnesota, in the county of Lac qui Parle, in the township of Lac qui Parle, was born, 45 years ago, Theodore Christiansen. He has twice been elected Governor of his native state, in whose university he achieved Phi Beta Kappa, before whose bar he made a reputation, and at whose public banquets he became famed as a defender of Babbitts from the attacks of Minnesota's Sinclair Lewis. Last week he was re-elected for a third term on a record of economy and efficiency...
Martin Luther's father, Hans Luther (Lyder, Luder, Ludher) was a peasant from Möhra Township, Thuringia. After his marriage he settled in Mansfeld, like many another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that...
...Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners who live there pay a nominal price for the heat that is piped to their shacks and frame houses from a municipal heating plant. Their children go to high school...
...centuries make a long time. Few U. S. communities are so old. In one tenth that time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...