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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Goodwin, of Monroe, N. Y.: the Dixie Amateur Golf Tournament, at Miami; by default. His opponent in the final, Thomas Philip Perkins, British Amateur Champion in 1928, was prevented from playing by a bullet in the thigh, received when six thugs entered Miami's Embassy Club...
...World's Biggest Horse" is Sillon B, 12, pure white, foaled in France, owned by C. H. Van Wickle, of Waterloo, N. Y. Weight: 2,960 Ib. Girth 8 ft. 10 in. Height: 21 hands. Average height for equus: 15 hands. Says Owner Van Wickle: "He's just getting his growth...
William Colgate (1783-1857), founder of the soap company, was a trustee of Baptist Theological Seminary at New York City which, established in 1817, was incorporated with the Baptist Education Society at Hamilton, N. Y. They became Hamilton Literary & Theological Institution, then Madison University, and in 1890, Colgate University. Son James Boorman Colgate gave the university $2,200,000 during his lifetime, and joined with other Colgates in the $1,000,000 Dodge Memorial Fund. Son Samuel gave money also but sent his sons Gilbert and the late Sidney Morse Colgate to Yale. Of the present generation it is "Jimmy...
...Rhodes Scholars were pleased last week to hear that Sir Francis James Wylie, longtime secretary of the Rhodes Trust and official welcomer at Oxford; would arrive in the U. S. next June. Appointed Honorary Chancellor for 1932 at Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.), he is to deliver the Chancellor's address at Union's 136th commencement...
...into any one of the seven Alice Foote MacDougall restaurants in Manhattan or into the one in Rye, N. Y., you can buy breakfast, luncheon, dinner, sandwiches, waffles, tea, coffee, cocoa, Italian, Spanish or English pottery and tea sets, 29 flavors of preserves and jellies, nine kinds of pickles and relishes. You can look at lamps, shades, bric-a-brac, pottery, leather goods, Venetian woodenware, Holland glass, table linen. Tooth-picking is discouraged...