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...four-year-old filly Columbiana, with Apprentice Jockey Hubert Le Blanc up, for her young Owner William J. ("Buddy") Hirsch, son of famed Trainer Max Hirsch: $52,000 and the gold Widener Challenge Cup, in the richest event of Florida's most profitable racing season; on the last day of the meeting at Hialeah Park, near Miami. Said rich Track Owner Joseph Widener while presenting his Cup to Buddy Hirsch: ". . . I think that Columbiana is young Mr. Hirsch's only horse. ... It proves once again that all men are equal on and under the turf...
Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
...49th Street. Aged 16, N. M. Butler, son of a New Jersey merchant, matriculated in 1878 to find only four of his classmates younger than himself. Slight, slick-haired young Butler busied himself winning prizes ("bun-yanking"), assimilating learning in enormous doses. He edited a college paper, Acta Columbiana, drafted the freshman class constitution. Politically-minded, oratorical, he was interested in everything but athletics. He was fit, though, set himself a private record by walking 45 mi. in 12 hr. on an Adirondack trip...
...name. The committee in charge consists of Professor Henry Norris Russell, director of the Princeton Observatory, and Hamilton Fish Strong. Working in conjunction with them are the various college newspapers, which are running branch contests to decide whether the name of the new planet will be Harvardiana, Yalensis, Tiga, Columbiana, Cornellia, or Pennsylvania. Princeton was not selected, as there is already a planet of that name...
...charge consists of Professor Henry Norris Russell, director of the Princeton Observatory, and Hamilton Fish Armstrong. Working in conjunction with them will be the various college newspapers, who have been asked to run branch contests to decide whether the name of the new planet will be Harviardiana, Yalensis, Tiga, Columbiana, Cornellia or Pennsylvania...