Bayard as Delaware’s New Long Term Senator
The Delaware pick Thomas Bayard hails from a line of senators父 father Thomas F Bayard and grandfather James A Bayard from Delaware. He wed a Du Pont and faces T Coleman du Font in the race. A Yale graduate and lawyer, Bayard is tall and athletic, wearing a flowing birel and known for his outspoken nature. He opposed woman suffrage and prohibition, saying he would enforce laws if duty required.
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Delaware
Thomas Bayard
Thomas F. ‘Bayard
James A. Bayard
Senate
A du Pont
T. Coleman du Font
Whabington
Bulit Ke
Bayard
Yale
Delawara
City Golfcitor
Wihinlington
Leroy Harvey
Gates Heiress to Wed Young Artist in Spring Wedding
Dellora Angell, heiress to a 35 million estate from John W Gates, announces plans to marry Lester Norris, a 21 year old artist and staff illustrator. The couple, schoolmates since childhood, will wed in spring and live in St Charles with a studio for Lester and a single family servant.
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Dellora Angell
Lester Norris
John W
Gates
St. Charles I
St. Charles Methodist Church
Dellora
Monty
H. J. Baker
Lester
St. Charles
Baltora
mNion Dolar
Lake Forest
Pasadena
Wisconsin Woods
Chicago Promises Horwood to Be Good
Chicago pledges to shield Sir Wil lam Horwood chief of Scotland Yard from threats as he visits the Windy City to recuperate. A cardboard box and poisoned candy scare unfolds with Scotland Yard investigating the cake and chocolate gifts sent from London suburbs.
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Chicago
Willam Horwood
Scotland Yard
Metropolitan Police
London
Windy City
Masonic Temple
Lomebody
William Box
Detective Headquarters
Trevor Bigham
Major Milcott
Enid Drysdale
West Wants Western Speaker of House Boom for Anderson
Minnesota congressman A. O. Préna pushes Sydney Anderson as a candidate for speaker to counter East control and explain Western discontent with Congress. He cites New England opposition to the St Lawrence waterway and Harding’s treaty as part of a broader political shift.
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A. O. Préna
Minnesota
Washington
Sydney Anderson
New England
Senate
House
Congress
Spentter Gillett
New York
St. Lawrence Waterway
Harding
Federal-Aid Highways Progress Report 1921 Update
The bureau of public roads reports nearly 6 600 miles closer to a complete federal highway system. Total federal-aid roads now under construction and completed reach about 40 888 miles, with 18 299 miles completed and 14 012 under construction. The program shows strong momentum with new project lettings and continued planning.
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United States Department
United States
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Measurement device for road wheel pressure test system
A Illinois state highway division bureau device measures pressure on road pavement from a motor truck wheel. It uses an oil cylinder three inches wide with an air line to a lock cylinder, a piston against a coil spring, and a stylus tracing rolling paper. The system links to truck transmission to relate speed to paper movement.
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Bureau of Testa
Tllinois
Meeting Urges Good Roads In Illinois History
Organized motorists of Dinols push for better highways at an Illinois Automobile club meeting. Henry Poulman, chairman of the good roads committee, credited with backing the $60,000,000 bond issue, praised William Bussa and urged continued efforts for improved hard-surfaced roads statewide.
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Cook County
Illinois
Illinois Automobile Club
Dinols
Henry Paulman
Good Roads Committee
Diinols State Automobile Association
Poulman
William Bussa
Stop Excessive Speeding and Road Ditches in France
Citizens dig shallow ditches at intervals to curb speed on roads in France. The ruts jolt drivers and damage car springs while communities argue roads are costly but essential.
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France
Author of St Nicholas Poem Remembered by Seminary
The General Theological Seminary in New York recalls Clement Clarke Moore founder and professor of Biblical learning famed for writing A Visit From St Nicholas. His daughter read the poem, it was printed in Troy Sentinel 1823 without his name, and Moore later published it in 1844.
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John Dickinson Sherman
New York City
Protestant Episcopal Church
Clement Clark Moore
Chelsea Square
Erperitus
Adultion
Stinctson
Maj
Thomas’ Clark
Aid
Ray
Benjamin Moore
Columbia University
New York
Christus
New Chapel of the Intercession
Old Trinity Cemetery
Pras
The
Troy
Sentinel
St. Nicholas
St. City
Tinalty T
Professor Moore
David Hutler
St. Paul's Church
Clement Moore
Roy Sentinel
Hfe
BibWen
Firat
Dutchimma
Ims
Holland
Christiang
St. Nick
Hudson
Merle
Trnaly
General Theological Seminary
Goll
Philadelphia Public Ledger
St Nick
A Visit From St Nicholas By Clement C Moore
The poem recalls the night before Christmas with a narrator watching St Nick. A miniature sleigh arrives, eight reindeer dash to the roof, St Nicholas enters the chimney, fills stockings, and wishes readers a happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.
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Clement C. Moore
St. Nicholas
Mama
St. Nick
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Comet
Cupid
Coursair
Dad
A Modern Kriss Kringle Unveils A Flying Sleigh Surprise
Kriss Kringle laughs and plans to fool the children this year by arriving not with deer and a sleigh but with a brand new airplane. He opens his hangar and reveals a gleaming live engine powered train ready for old St. Nick.
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Kriss Kringle
St. Nick
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Illinois State Highway Division
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