Word: coliseums
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...mass-meeting of Wets in the Coliseum, where national conventions used to be held, rallied...
Under emerald lights in Omaha's Coliseum was held the Coronation Ball, chief social event of the celebration. Crowned 37th King of Ak-Sar-Ben was ruddy, blue-eyed, Austrian-born George Brandeis, president of J. L. Brandeis & Sons, head of Brandeis Investment Co., director of Omaha National Bank. A leader of the Ak-Sar-Ben organization, he is 53 years old, has lived in Omaha 18 years. He wore a Louis XIV costume. His queen was Miss Lida Whitmore, 22-year-old daughter of Jesse Dwight Whitmore, farmer and livestock feeder of Valley, Neb. Nine thousand spectators packed...
...streets. Nineteen ornate floats passed through depicting "The Romance of Trade & Industry." In the most ornate of all sat the 52nd Veiled Prophet with his queen. Led by a platoon of mounted police the parade moved slowly, impressively, lit by the flare of torches. Next night in St. Louis' Coliseum the Veiled Prophet crowned Miss Ann Chittenden Ferris Queen of Love & Beauty. She is the daughter of President Henry T. Ferris of National Bank Co. of St. Louis. To her was given St. Louis' highest social honor. The identity of the Veiled Prophet remained traditionally secret. Up & down the brilliantly...
...year-old President Sidney Nicholas Strotz (rhymes with "boats") of Chicago Stadium Corp.-out to beat John Ringling at his own game. Last autumn Mr. Ringling refused to book his Sells-Floto circus at the Chicago Stadium for this spring. Instead he took the older, smaller Chicago Coliseum, for a generation the South Wabash Avenue scene of circus in Chicago before the handsome greystone stadium was built on Madison Street. To teach John Ringling a lesson, young President Strotz announced that his own Great European Olympia Circus, which he last week had almost in readiness, would perform daily...
...stockbreeders flocked to the 31st International Live Stock Show at the Chicago Coliseum last week in greater numbers than ever before, officially assured that no tricky showmanship would be countenanced, that sound husbandry would prevail in the granting of awards. For the first time it became publicly known that for years certain breeders have been injecting their cattle with subcutaneous matter (oils, paraffin) to fill out sags and wrinkles in their animals carcasses. Even Lucky Strike, last year's grand champion steer, owned by 20-year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, who used his prize money...