Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...
...unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses. Comrades rallied in naked protest shouting "Jesus would not carry...
Baker Library would also aim to become a treasure house of information on business that is past. To this purpose the Aldrich Room, the corporation collection, and the original document division, are severally devoted. The Aldrich Room, founded on the collection of finance material assembled by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, forms the center for the provision of material on banking, finance, and the tariff, covering both the distant and recent past; while it also serves as a reading room to those who would study at leisure the development of the United States in these lines...
...Hearst group had tickets for the whole voyage. Other trippers included Joachim Rickard, Massachusetts-born Spanish correspondent, who was obliged to fight Hearst opposition to his passage; Lieutenant Jack C. Richardson, U. S. Navy observer; William B. Leeds, socialite playboy. Lieut.-Col. Nelson Morris, nephew of Ira Nelson Morris (Chicago meatpacker and onetime Minister to Sweden), had a ticket as far as Friedrichshafen...
Manchester, Bolton, Rochdale, Bury, Blackburn, Oldham, Nelson, Glossop...