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Meadville was still boom, not ghost town. Farmers backed their trucks into the market square, did a brisk business in tomatoes, pale green roasting ears, cucumbers, cantaloupes, bright yellow squash. On Saturday there was no parking space to be found in front of the clothing stores and banks on Chestnut Street. Young factory workers jitterbugged until 2 a.m. in juke-box honky-tonks. Lights burned all night in Talon's plants; change of shifts at 2:30 p.m., 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. involved a major traffic problem...
...following students received certificates for completion of the Harvard course in Naval Science and Tactics, and will receive their commissions later; Donald A. Brew, East Orange, N. J.; John B. Reece, Chestnut Hill, Mass,; and Theodore F. Whitmarsh, Now York City...
...spreading chestnut tree is just a gray tombstone along the walk but modern Brattle Street retains much of the antique flavor that delighted Longfellow almost a century ago. All you have to do is look for it. Up past the bustle of the Post Office and retail shops stands the remains of Tory Row, a group of old houses which haven't changed much since they were confiscated by patriot fathers in the days of the Revolution. Several ageless landmarks lie between Story and Hilliard Streets. just a block from Brattle Square; and of these, Perhaps the most interesting...
...Pratt place became a restaurant in 1913 when it was purchased and restored by Miss. Frances D. Gage, and open days the Cock Horse Inn. But that time Cambridge had long since parted with her cherished "chestnut three", in favoring of widening Brattle Street. But what the Cock House lacked in hallowed foliage, it made up in wholesome tasty food. Before long its fame as am eating place had spread throughout New England. This to the extent that a rhapsodic passage on "crab meat souffle" a la Cock Horse may still be read in Donald Heinz's "Adventures in Eating...
Lincoln lives in Chestnut Hill and prepared at Noble and Greenough, where he stroked the school four for two years, captaining it his first class year. Freshman year he was unable to row out of Nowell, but won the College Junior singles title, last year he was rowing on the heavy squad until the spring vacation, when he was dropped. Coming back to College this fall, Lincoln tried out for the 150-pound squad, and through losing twelve pounds, was able to make the boat...