Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JAMES RAMP Y. M. C. A. San Francisco, Calif...
...Penney had traveled from Oregon to Palo Alto, Calif., and had personally offered the Penney home to Mr. Hoover as a vacation spot. This generosity was undoubtedly stimulated by the admiration of like for like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied...
...Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
Died. Anton A. Tibbe, 70, corncob pipe maker; in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Tibbe made his birthplace, Washington, Mo., the corncob metropolis, when he discovered a method of fireproofing "Missouri Meerschaums...
Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, onetime cinema funnyman, was haled into court in Culver City, Calif., last week, to show cause why his roadhouse should not be padlocked as a nuisance...