Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 12, Una Jeffers of Carmel-by-the-Sea reported a visit to the old Lime Kiln near Bixley Creek on the new Carmel-San Simeon Highway. She visited it a few months ago and saw the ruins, but I, as a little girl, spent many a happy summer vacation there when the busy trams carried the lime, down to the cliffs 25 years ago. My father, Mr. Frank D. Shields, and four other business men of San Francisco controlled the production at that time and as children my brother and I visited the Kiln for our summer holidays...
...work had "to be abandoned about 1910, as I remember, due to a heavy cloudburst, which swept the complete little settlement into the creek and left the place in ruins...
...Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick...
...last eight years been famed Bill Mehlhorn's 271 in the 1929 El Paso Open. Last week Mehlhorn's astounding record, which all the best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...
...Battle Creek golf professional who started to teach him the game when he was 3, Golfer Harbert is an amateur who uses a baseball grip and had never until last week bettered the 67 he made in the Michigan Open three years ago. Said he: "After I started with three birdies in a row in mv first round, I knew I was on my game and I just kept going. . . . On the final round, I was so tired I could hardly lift my clubs...