Word: weehawken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
Married. Reinald Werrenrath, 44, famed baritone; to Miss Verna Nidig, of Washington, D. C.; in Weehawken...
...Henry Ameroy Hotvedt (pronounced Hotwet) of Weehawken, N. J., said, "People snicker at the mention of my name," when he last week petitioned a law court to change his name to Hartwell...
Down through the Mohawk and Hudson valleys the train swept and paused. At Utica, Herkimer, Ravenna, Kingston, Newburgh, West Point there were crowds, cheers, songs, handshakes, little girls, gladioli, more movies by Mrs. Coolidge. At Weehawken, Manhattan Transfer, Pennsylvania Junction only a few trainmen gazed on the special and its precious cargo. At midnight the President and Mrs. Coolidge arrived at a spick and span White House, tired, happy...