Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading such slander hurled against our noble commonwealth, I see a ray of probable sunlight, that I glean from the very beginning of her second paragraph, in which she states something about changing her residence, and I sincerely hope that she will cross the. State line, be it east, west, north or south, when she makes that change, as the State of New Jersey will be well rid of such...
...Monitor. It is the Pickwick among college funny papers; a smiling old philanthropist, with a fondness for old friends, old wine and old jokes. Only at intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean-cut work; and Reynal's full page drawing, though encumbered with too much work on the background and accessories, gives...
Died. Major William E. Cochran, 74, onetime Chief Inspector of the Post Office Department; at Glens Falls, N. Y. In 1894, when Coxey's Army marched from the West to Washington, D. C., 352 men seized a passenger train in Kansas, ran wild with it. Major Cochran and his guards captured the lot, marched them to jail. The pursuit, arrest and conviction of Gerald Chapman and "Dutch" Anderson, famed mail robbers, was directed...
...mechanical department facilities maintained by the St. Louis-San Francisco R. R. Co. at Harvard, Tenn., and Memphis, are to be discontinued and reestablished at Yale, Tenn., six miles West of Memphis, where $1,450,000 will be spent in enlargements and improvements. Yale Alumni Weekly...
...American Institute of Graphic Arts each year has a jury choose 50 books from those that are submitted. These volumes then are exhibited, first in New York and then on a tour of the states, going as far west as California and returning to the Gloria Club, in New York where the best volume is selected...