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Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the naval station in the name of economy. The soldiers moved away, too. Pan American Airways out of Miami took the cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line...
...thought were poisonous. Indians in Mexico were found munching them as early as the 16th Century. The French prescribed them as a highly effective love potion. Thomas Jefferson had some on his Virginia farm in 1781, dared to use them in sauces and soups. But a woman born in Trenton, N. J. as late as 1833 reported that when as a child she ate a tomato, her parents rushed her to the doctor, certain she would die. Not until 1835 did the editor of the Maine Farmer report that tomatoes had been cultivated in Maine gardens "and should be found...
Recognized immediately by every visitor was a Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Washington showing the President's sunken cheeks caused by the wooden false teeth which Painter Charles Willson Peale made for him. Less known was a Washington at the Battle of Trenton by Stuart's contemporary, John Trumbull (1756-1843), moody son of a Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation...
...Trenton, N. J. this week Patrick Cardinal Hayes was to install Most Rev. Moses E. Kiley, 57, appointed bishop last February and consecrated in Rome in March. Once a floorwalker in a Boston department store where he saved his wages to study for the priesthood. Bishop Kiley was spiritual director of the North American College in Rome from 1926 until this year...
Died. James Kerney, 60, publisher of Trenton, N. J.'s three newspapers, friend of President Wilson, author of The Political Education of Woodrow Wilson, sometimes used as a university textbook; of pneumonia following a long illness; in Baltimore...