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...father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pasture and meadow lands. He had, I suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean...
...Woodland, Calif...
...captain of the University golf team, and J. J. Mapes '25, who played at number two on the University team, will play in a four-ball match to open the new nine holes on the Albermarle Country Club this afternoon. Fred Wright, Albermarle champion, and Jesse Guilford of Woodland, former national amateur champion of the United States will complete the foursome...
...University golf team, on the eve of its trip to New York, completely routed the B. U. golfers in a match played at the Woodland Country Club yesterday afternoon by the score of 6-0. The team goes to New York this afternoon where it will play tomorrow matches with Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania...
This was the dream of Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...