Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Arthur Chase Needles, President of the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., of Roanoke, Va.; and Edith Hortense Clark of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
...ocean. Nor was it paradoxical for a railroader like Mr. Loree to assert that, besides another trans-Appalachian railroad line, more inland waterways are needed by the U. S. for national defense as well as for commerce. He wants to see a coastal-lateral canal system from Boston to Norfolk, Va. A link needed to join up present. parts of this system is a 31-mile canal from the Delaware River to the Raritan across New Jersey...
...Manhattan-Wilmington miles of track will be the longest railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...
...Needham, having performed a march of nine miles in three hours, including a halt of twenty minutes. About ten o'clock, they again halted at Richard's for twenty minutes; and reached the termination of the Worcester turnpike about half past eleven, where they were received by the Norfolk Guards and escorted to the high ground opposite the residence of General H. A. S. Dearborn, where they encamped, and which gave them a full view of Boston...
...second most mispronounced British peer is perhaps "Lord Chumly," spelled Cholmondeley. The Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley stubbornly persist in calling themselves "Chumly." Last week their daughter, Lady Aline "Chumly," presided over a charity rummage sale at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, while their youngest man child, Lord John "Chumly" donned a "cowboy suit" (imported from the U. S.) and took sixpences from people who wanted to dip into a bran tub for prizes of doubtful value...