Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large supply of patent milk powders which nourished the young sea-woman not at all. No native wet nurse could be persuaded to stay aboard, and Joan was slowly starving when "Stitches," the sailmaker, managed to barter a handful of dried apricots and an old alarm clock for a Norfolk Island milch-goat. A year later the good creature was killed by wreckage in a squall, and Joan went on regular sailor's diet: duff pudding once a week, onion bouillon (one onion to a bucket of water), curry and rice, boiled tapioca with pale lavender cornstarch sauce...
Four matches are scheduled for the team while it is away from Cambridge. These are with the University of Richmond, William and Mary, the Norfolk Country Club, and the University of Virginia, and all of them will be played in Norfolk...
Ralph Grady Gulley 5S.A. of Norfolk, Virginia was announced yesterday as the recipient of the Boston Society of Architects Prize. This marks the fifth successive year that a student of the Harvard School of Architecture has led in the competition...
...Pennsylvania. This is important in view of the growing commerce with South America. New York City might also be relieved of some of her traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle...
Married. Warren Redenock Straton, Manhattan Beaux Arts sculpture student, son of Rev. John Roach Straton; to one Ruth Stokes Cater of Douglaston, N. Y.; by Dr. Straton. Later, while driving to visit his son in Norfolk, Va., Dr. Straton was chased by motorcycle police, arrested for driving 50 miles an hour...