Word: doylestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, expanded the activities of his Anti-Mothballers this summer. He divided them into two groups, one consisting of Philadelphia stay-at-homes, the other of people with the time and energy for such Anti-Mothball projects as a visit last week to Doylestown, Pa. for a square dance...
...socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival...
...Doylestown, Wis., John McMann and Russell McMann were arrested for burglarizing the general store. When the sheriff carefully fitted a piece of cheese in John McMann's mouth, found the tooth marks matched a bite taken during the burglary, John McMann confessed...
Married. Everett Shinn, 59, painter & illustrator, for the fourth time; and one Paula Downing, 21; in Doylestown...
...sample gardens, encouraged people to grow their own food. The War stopped shipments of bulbs, so he grew fine Dutch bulbs in the U. S. Carefully and in person he oversees the operation of the Burpee farms, Fordhook Farms (named for the ancestral Burpee estate in England) at Doylestown, Pa., and Floradale Farm in Santa Barbara County, Calif. In person, too, he follows many of the 20,000 experiments made yearly by the Burpee organization. He advocates Federal patents for the protection of flower experimenters. He lives at Fordhook Farms while his younger brother, Washington Atlee Burpee Jr.. treasurer...