Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Galena, 111., is subject to floods and very wet weather. So Secretary Mellon thought the Treasury was justified in furnishing rubber boots, coats and hats to Postoffice and Custom House employes stationed there. Then Secretary Mellon wrote a memorandum to Comptroller General McCarl, watchdog of the Treasury, saying that the Galena officials received small salaries and he deemed it only fair to classify rubber boots, etc., as "necessary equipment," not as "wearing apparel" (which must be paid for by the men themselves...
Yesterday, for the third successive afternoon, no strenuous practice was held. The inclement weather drove the squad into the baseball cage, where nothing but drill on signals was held. Practice was over by 3.15 o'clock...
Because of unfavorable weather, the University football squad sought refuge in the baseball cage for yesterday's practice. Only a short drill was held, the session lasting less than two hours...
Yesterday's downpour delayed the opening of the class football season. On account of the weather most of the prospective candidates failed to appear, only about a dozen men reporting. Consequently the official opening was postponed until 3 o'clock this afternoon, when all men wishing to play class football will report to Coach J. L. Knox '98 of the second team...
First round matches in the University tennis tournament, which was scheduled for yesterday, have been postponed until the weather permits play on the courts. Two days will be given to play off preliminary matches and all results must be posted by the evening of the second day or penalty of disqualification...