Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile wreck near Gilroy. Calif., a frantic woman and a suicide revealed last week a long hidden U. S. Army masquerade. The woman was a Mrs. Gertrude McEnroe, who had come to San Francisco from Butte, Mont, to be with Lieut. William J. French, on leave from Camp Devens, Mass. Early one morning Lieut. French and Mrs. McEnroe started to motor to Los Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found...
...These are old coral islands, flat and surrounded by barrier reefs and shoals, and apparently but little visited for various obvious reasons. However, as a venture, a man at Geraldton has undertaken this summer a lobster-canning industry there and told us to come and stay at his camp there if we liked. The only way was to go with a fishing boat, which dropped us at the West Wallaby Island and agreed to stop for us again in two weeks, after making their fishing cruise. Schevill and I thought we ought to make a try for the topotypes...
...infant cannery, scarcely established, employs two fishermen and five factory hands, including the boss. They have very sweetly allowed us to camp in the lee of the factory, by the scanty water supply. The factory itself is not very impressive, consisting mostly of gunny sacking spread over a slight framework, with here and there a strip of echoing sheet iron. Their crayfish, however, are much more attractive, being a very noble sort of langouste. . . (Eight days later)--By this time, I am not so sure of its nobility, but is at least a very solid bourgeois...
Died. Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, 62, broker, president of Booth Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest...
...serious collector of Americana, owns hundreds of George Washington's letters, also many rare books, manuscripts and documents of the period. He has a big collection of Indian relics, more than 30,000 stone implements, all collected in New Jersey. Recently he paid $250,000 for a Revolutionary camp site near Morristown which he is going to give to the U. S. for a National Park. Another of his philanthropies: $100.000 to Princeton University for an accurate, exhaustive history of New Jersey. William B. Cardozo, 66. was elected a director of City Bank Farmers Trust Co. after 50 years...