Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great industrialists of that day, such as John D. Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern county as the Anti-Saloon League. The industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren...
Orchestra Hall, in Detroit, will be the scene of the third performance, and Masome Hall in Cleveland, the fourth. On Thursday the Hasty Pudding troupe will be in Buffalo, where it will go on the boards, for the fifth time in the Elks Club...
...companion. He purchased for $100 from one Albinus Elchert, farmer, an old cigar store savage called variously "Seneca John," or "The Tiffin Tecumseh." This wooden Indian is a noted member of his vanishing race; he was made by Arnold Ruef, Tiffin, Ohio, woodcarver, a half century ago. In Cleveland, recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize of $50. Now Seneca John will be taken to Dearborn, Mich., and given a permanent place in Henry Ford's museum...
...their garage. Five years ago, Editor H. D. Jacobs of the Scripps-Howard Baltimore Post conceived the idea of making one of his reporters a Mr. Fixit, whose duty would be to solve the troubles of Baltimoreans. Mr. Fixit was first tried out in the more potent Scripps-Howard Cleveland Press, was a success. Then nearly all of the 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers created Mr. Fixits. The present one on the Baltimore Post is George Browning, who is cheered as loudly as the mayor when he appears in public. He has been little-johnny-sunshine to newsboys and millionaires. When...
John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...