Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...
TIME Los Angeles, Calif...
Shortridge (Calif.) Walsh (Mont...
...Vernon, Calif., the night before, George Godfrey, titanic Negro, had smacked one Tiny Herman to the canvas four times in three rounds-and then once more. After the fifth smack, Tiny Herman did not rise again until the referee's arm had marked off ten strophes. Had Negro Harry Wills, Dempsey's Nemesis, appeared before the Vernon crowd in tuxedo or barrelhouse cutaway, it is quite possible that the gathering would have favored him with the same vocal bludgeonings that the Los Angeles group bestowed upon the Champion, for Wills is reputed to be dodging Godfrey even...
...Angeles, Calif., U. S. Secretary of the Navy Cuntis D. Wilbur advertised an address before the Bible class which he once taught. He tried to reconcile Evolution and the Bible by dissenting from literal interpretation of the latter and rejecting "God in a vacuum...