Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-fisted Vermont pioneer named Albert Arnold Sprague bumped out to Chicago in a covered wagon and went into the grocery trade. With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago. Sprague Warner was a pioneer in the packaging of food, and its Richelieu brands became more famous than the hotel for which they were named.* By the time the second Ezra J. Warner died in 1933, Sprague Warner was a far-flung manufacturing and wholesale house, as prestigious as Manhattan's Charles...
...Boston & Maine will run two snow trains into New Hampshire and Vermont this week-end, both leaving tomorrow and returning on Sunday...
Born at Bristol, Va., of a Vermont father and a French Canadian mother, Pinky Harrington graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. Outside his office, he is an ornament of social Washington. Inside his office hangs a quotation from George Washington: "Do not suffer your good nature, when application is made, to say yes when you ought...
...Dartmouth Winter Carnival will be held the next week, February 10 and 11. The Vermont Down Hill meet is slated for February 19; Captain William H. Hinton '41 won this meet last year...
Bolton Trail in Bolton, Vermont reports 13 inches of snow with six inches of powder over a breakable crust...