Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which they pay their own expenses, entry fees and hospital bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began...
...railroad station, veered at the last second and ripped into a line of telegraph wires, flopped over, fell into the backyard of an empty house. A sigh of relief breathed through San Gabriel. A minute later Pilot Morrie Gordon, who had taken the plane up from Los Angeles' Alhambra Airport for a pleasure ride, lit blandly on the edge of town. Citizens were amazed to learn that he could not have been held responsible for any damage his plummeting plane might have done, was not legally responsible to the plane's owner, Mark G. Carlton, for the cracked...
Charles C. Davis of Kansas City and Theodore Allen of Alhambra, Calif., the two finalists who were tied at the end of the round-robin. In the play-off (two games out of three), Allen won, 50-28, 50-27. He had established a world's record, throwing 73.5% ringers in the tournament. A farmer until recently when he got a job with a transfer company, he is a shy, sandy-haired, well-built fellow with a missing tooth. Now 24, he has been pitching half his life, throws a soft lead shoe with 1¼ turns, takes time...
...have been dropped from the honor roll either because economies have hog-tied their health officers or because other communities have intensified their health activities and sur passed the failures. The twelve dropped cities are: Philadelphia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Utica, N. Y., Harrisburg, Pa., Kenosha and Racine, Wis., Alhambra, Calif., Maplewood, Orange and West Orange, N. J., Monrovia, Calif...
Died, Francis Quarles Story, 86, "father of the Sunkist orange"; of a heart attack; in Alhambra, Calif...