Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan, but not yet seated in Congress, is in a like case. Representative Arthur Monroe Free of San Jose, Calif., matches Senator Ladd's record with two sets of twins. But he totals only five children...
Died. Joseph T. Swanson, 52, of the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. A., father of Gloria Swanson, cinema actress, at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif., of acute heart disease...
Miss Helen Wills, national women's tennis champion: "In an $8,000,000 fire at Berkeley, Calif., where I live, 45 square blocks of the city's most beautiful homes were devastated and I was treated at the Emergency Hospital for blistered feet and a cinder...
Died. Joseph Clarence Ward, 79, telegrapher at General Grant's headquarters during the Civil War, at Visalia, Calif. He is said to have taught the Morse code to Thomas Alva Edison, the then newsboy...
...Spring opening of the National Parks five months ago. The public heard. The public came. On twelve days this season the number of people entering Yellowstone National Park exceeded 2,000, although the greatest daily record for 1922 was 1,983. Three parks, Yellowstone (Wyo.), Platt (Okla.), Yosemite (Calif.), had received more than 100,000 visitors by Aug. 15. Hot Springs National Park (Ark.) had 98,580 visitors by the same date. Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.), 83,888. Last year over 1,200,000 people visited 19 parks. This year the number is expected to surpass...