Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evalyn's father, Thomas F. Walsh (not to be confused with Montana's late Senator) was an Irish immigrant who drifted to Colorado, left his carpenter's trade for prospecting. He ran a store in Deadwood, owned Leadville's most respectable hotel during the boom there. Evalyn's mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...
...would be determined in the remaining area where the Democrats are at present least strong, the Republicans least weak. That area, roughly bounded by the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, approximates the grain belt. There Kansas has 9 electoral votes, Minnesota, 11, South Dakota 4, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3, Colorado 6. Total...
...York Stock Exchange one day last week 19 steel stocks made new Recovery highs. U. S. Steel went to $59.75 per share, up $7.75 for the week; Bethlehem to $57.50, up $3.13; Ludlum to $32.50, up $3.50; Colorado Fuel & Iron preferred to $45.87, up $3. The industry was operating at only 52% of capacity, lower than a year ago. What encouraged speculators was the fact that in the face of a sharp dip in automobile production, operations had actually risen five points since the year end. U. S. steel shipments for January showed an unexpected increase of nearly...
...complete schedule is as follows: Feb. 12, Texas A. & M., V. M. I., U. of Missouri; Feb. 26, Ohio State, Princeton; Mar. 11, Colorado Aggies, U. of Wisconsin, Iowa State, U. of Florida, U. of Utah; Apr. 15, Cornell, Purdue, Oklahoma, Illinois; Apr. 22, R.O.T.C. matches, Yale...