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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward of Wales sent a sheaf of pink & red roses last week to be laid with other sheaves around an apple tree in the "Garden of Memory" at Himley Hall, Worcestershire. Just eight months ago a seven-year-old boy was buried in this garden. Cycling, he had been run over by a truck. Last week his mother was laid beside him. She, young and lovely Rosemary Millicent Viscountess Ednam, perished in the mysterious airplane crash in Kent fortnight ago when six Britons were killed. The card which H. R. H. sent with his pink & red mourning roses last week...
...sort of publicity that Stone's stories had brought Winsted. He named the hero of all his stories Lester Green. His stories have received fair but not great circulation, some of them being rather dull. Last week, for example, Lester Green, to save spraying, grafted on his apple tree an insect-catching plant...
...armed, and bashed Clarence Boyd over the head with a bottle. Thereupon Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, drew a revolver from his nearby automobile, opened fire on the Negroes. They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson, strung him to a tree-ninth lynching on the 1930 roll, Alabama's first this year...
...TIME, usually accurate, gullibly repeats the tosh about Jehovah and the Continental Congress. Shall we look forward to the cherry tree tale next Washington's birthday...
...Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...