Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them wild with denunciation of Messrs. Moody and Sterling. Newspapers were given libel law waivers by Candidate Sterling to print anything Stumpster Ferguson said against him, but Mrs. Ferguson would not grant the Press the reciprocal privilege. Her husband, appealing to the "common folks at the fork of the creek," mocked and jibed at Candidate Sterling's handsome Bay Shore house, declared it had no less than 27 bathrooms.* accused his wife's opponent of "having lost the common touch." Boldly he admitted he would run the state government over Mrs. Ferguson's shoulder. He shouted...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...Over the weekend President Hoover went to the mountain camp of Jay Cooke III, Philadelphia banker, near Williamsport, Pa. He fished with indifferent success in the cold waters of Larry's Creek. On his way home to Washington he stopped unexpectedly for Sunday service at a little rural Methodist church at Liverpool, Pa., drew a great crowd, dropped a tightly folded $5 hill into the collection plate...
...Island Creek Coal...
...been Chief ever since Author Linderman knew him. Now 82, he is one of the few plains Indians who remembers the time before the white man overran the Northwest. Sitting outside his two-story chief's house (the only two-story house among the Crows) on Pryor Creek, Mont., he told the story of his life to Author Linderman...