Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...
...Companionate Marriage" will be the subject of a debate between Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile Court of Denver, Colorado, and the Reverend H. H. Crane, scheduled for Symphony Hall Tuesday evening...
...Denver, Colo., last week, the county court overruled all objections to the will of the late Fred H. Forrester, who had left his $110,000 fortune for the permanent care of his collie, Shep, for the welfare of all homeless or abused dumb animals in Colorado, and for the construction of drinking fountains for dogs and horses in Denver streets. Dog Shep had refused to eat for a week after Mr. Forrester's death...
...western patch of the bituminous mess, in the coalfields of South Eastern Colorado (TIME, Dec. 5, Jan. 30), still smoldered...
...fomenters of the strike in Colorado, sued State police officers and Mayor John J. Pritchard of Walsenburg, Colo., for raiding the I. W. W. hall and State headquarters in Walsenburg. Damages of $100,500 were asked-$100,000 "exemplary," $500 actual damage. While this litigation pended, unlikely to succeed, a Walsenburg court fined Emil Rozansky. a Wobbly leader, $400 for disorderly conduct, fighting, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest...