Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft, Calif...
Died. Miss Marie C. Brehm, 66, in 1924 the Prohibition nominee for Vice President of the U. S., since 1891 a national lecturer for the W. C. T. U.; at Long Beach, Calif., from injuries suffered in the collapse of a grandstand at Pasadena three weeks previously...
Hollywood, Calif...
...Captain J. D. Dickson runs a "collection service" in San Diego, Calif., and he sends out through the mails advertisements, not of his business, but of chivalry. "Why," he asked last week, "is there less chivalry in man today than yesterday? I hold as inviolable...
...Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn...