Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Henry Crane, 82, well-loved actor, star of David Harum, The Senator, Business is Business and many another U. S. comedy, president emeritus of the Maskers Club; in Hollywood, Calif...
...took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
American Telephone & Telegraph Co. ("Longest station to station call within the U. S. now costs $10; San Francisco, Calif. to Eastport, Me.")-$166,000,000. Previous year...
Died. Edward Burgess Butler, 74, retired millionaire owner and founder of Butler Brothers (wholesale drygoods with warehouses in Chicago, New York, St. Louis), amateur painter; in Pasadena, Calif.; of pneumonia...
Died. Mrs. Lily Eberhard Anheuser Busch, 83, widow of Adolphus Busch, St. Louis beermaker whose factories covered 70 city blocks; onetime mistress of a kolossal castle at Langenschwalbach, Prussia; owner of the magnificent Busch Gardens in Pasadena, Calif., where the admission fees flow into the treasury of the American Legion; of pneumonia; in Pasadena, Calif. Kolossal were the parties at Langenschwalbach, where servants served barbecues with spades and pitchforks, where the Kaiser feasted, where entire hotels were hired to accommodate guests...