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Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
Coach Stevens of the University crew has engaged the Metropolitan Ice Company to commence cutting ice on the Charles River at 8.30 o'clock this morning, it was anounced last night. The Metropolitan Company will employ a gasoline driven ice-cutter in an attempt to break up the ice, and clear the river for the crews. The cutting will be done above the Newell Boat House which will afford the University rowers a fairly long course and will hasten the breaking up of the ice further down the river...
...Cutter, whose great work at halfback featured the early games, will be unable to start against Harvard. Allen veteran tallback whose backing up of the line has stamped him as one of the greatest defensive backs of the season, will be able to take only a small part in Saturday's engagement...
...defense the Elis will have a formidable pair in Captain Potts, and Cole. In the forward line the Blue will have the brilliant Ferguson, whose poke-check played an important part in stopping the Crimson. Cutter and Cottle, substitute wings last year who are at present filling halfback positions on the Yale eleven, and Frey, reserve center...
...General John A. Dix, Which contained the direction: 'If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the shot', was transmitted on the evening of January 15, 1861, for the purpose of retaining under the control of the Federal government the United State Coast Guard cutter 'Robert McLelland', then in the port of New Orleans...