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After watching a grocery boy deliver a package of thing which he rather unromantically concluded were probably groceries, the Vagabond turned around briskly, and blinded by the sudden darkness, proceeded to run his finger up and down the card Catalogue until he found it was the back of a girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fun in Philadelphia | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

One gleam of light in the darkness of Harvard's athletic record during the Christmas holidays was the impressive victory scored by the Crimson chess team in the recent H. Y. P. D. matches held at New York.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CHESSMEN WIN H.Y.P.D. TOURNAMENT | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

On Land: As darkness settled down on the little Scots hamlet of Castlecary late one afternoon last week, the local train from Dundee pulled into the London & North Eastern Railway station. Around it swirled a December blizzard that blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Accidents | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

At 3:45 one afternoon last week three Utility Commission engineers and a lawyer, John C. Kelley, rapped at the door of the Allentown plant. Mr. Kelley presented the superintendent, a Pennsylvania Dutchman named Fenstermacher, with a formal notice from Mr. Beamish. Superintendent Fenstermacher gave a guttural gasp. The notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Beamish's Little Joke | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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