Word: townswoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey is not famed as a Negro-hating state but the population (700) of Alloway, N. J., is pure white and proud of it. Last week Allowayans felt thoroughly satisfied when a jury convicted their townswoman, Mrs. Lillian Fleming, of "atrocious assault and battery...
...were listed in the schedule of the men's A. A. U. championship relays, and Miss Filkey strode 100 yards in 11 9/10 sec., a national record. She then obliterated the world's record for broad jumping by her sex-16 ft., 6 3/8 in. Her fellow townswoman, Katherine Lee, ascended 4 ft., 10 7/8 in., on a running high jump-another world's mark. Four women out of the East won the quarter-mile relay race in world's record time, 53 9/10...