Dorset matriarch Rose Kent nears ninety in memory circle
Mrs Rose Lindley Kent of Dorset recalls historic milestones from Hoosac Tunnel voyage in 1875 to Brooklyn Bridge walk in 1883 and Niagara Falls crossing. A DAR member, former Dorset schools superintendent, artist, and dog registrar, she faced a rare operation at Putnam Memorial Hospital and then celebrated her 90th birthday May 27.
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Dorset
Rose Lindley Kent
Jack of All Trades
Williamstown
Mass
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Chicago
Niagara Falls
Bennington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mrs. Kent
Bendi
Bennington Graded School
School Street
North
Pownal
Vicksburg
Miss
Herkimer
Banner
Celestia Keyes
Kent
John Kent
Biloxi
Air Force
Robert Kent
Manchester
Bromley
Robert
Norwalk
Conn
Charles
Great Barrington
Putnam Hospital
How the N E Delegation Voted On Recent Roll Calls
New England members backed the 62 15 move to take up the Alexander Hamilton monument bill ending a filibuster over the anti poll tax amendment. Several R and D members from Vermont Maine Connecticut New Hampshire Mass Rhode Island voted, with Pastore Pell not voting. The 77 16 adoption of the resolution to send a constitutional amendment outlawing the poll tax received unanimous for votes. On the tax revision bill passage 219 196, the list of lawmakers shows regional party splits across Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire and Rhode Island.
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Mansfield
D-Mont
Aiken
R-Vt
Bush
R-Conn
Cotton
R-N.h
Dodd
D - Conn
Murphy
Muskie
Maine
Prouty
Saltonstall
R-Maine
R-Mass
Smith
D-Mass
Feder
Boland
D - Mass
Burke
Curtis
Daddario
D-Conn
Donohue
D Mass
Fogarty
D-R.i
Macdonald
Merrow
O’neil
Philbin
St. Germain
D - RI
Stafford
Bates
Lane
Tupper
Giaimo
Kowalski
Macdonaldo
Monagan
O'Neill
Bass
Conte
Gordland
Keith
McIntire
Martin
Morse
Seely-Brown
Sibal
Wrong dog fetched. doghouse misidentification leads to joke
Bert Olswanger visited a veterinarian to pick up their family puppy. On return he said the dog barked all the way home, as if signaling something. His wife agreed the dog was trying to tell him they had brought home the wrong dog.
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Memphis
Bert Olswanger
Big Leaguers Build Cushion Against Future
Major league players seek financial security to avoid post retirement hardship. Yankees observer Robert Lee Turley notes players peak at 22 to 26, then face shrinking earnings and limited pension. Turley, 31, backs business ventures in Bel Air and Newark while contending with arm trouble after a 1958 standout season.
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Orlando, Fla
Robert Lee Turley
New York Yankees
Turley
Auto Insurance Claims Rise in Two-Year Trend
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reports steady year to year increases in both bodily injury and property damage auto claims paid by private passenger insurers. 1959 to 1961 show growth in reported bodily injury and property damage payments with stable claim frequency per 100 cars.
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Washington, D.C
Russell I. Brown
The
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
ITHS
Poachers Arrested in Nepal Rhino Crisis
Government guards in southern Nepal captured 50 rhinoceros poachers amid a sharp population decline from about 200 to 30 over several years. Poachers seek rhino horns valued for believed magical powers among tribal groups.
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Katmandu
Nepal
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Bel Air
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Del
Insurance
VT. Bank
Drysdale’s
DuPont
T Senen
Central JC
Aane Dol
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