Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith Halls: H. L. Anderson, F. D. Clark, Demorest Davenport, R. E. Eaton, M. C. Kirkbride, E. E. Mitchell, Albert Pratt, J. R. Wink, Andrew Yeomans...
Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., through a $50,000,000 subsidiary (Sinclair Auto Supply Co.) announced plans for the creation of a chain of monster service stations, to sell oil and gasoline in conjunction with everything else a motorist desires. From Davenport, Iowa, to Buffalo these stations will be scattered, each costing $100,000, $250,000 or even more. One of the first, in Cleveland, will cost $300,000 and extend through an entire block...
Starting with the next (September) issue, The Mentor will no longer have a theme-subject. Instead there will be articles on many a different topic, by such authors as Walter Davenport, W. E. Woodward, Margaret Widdemer, Will Durant. There will be seven four-color pages in place of rotogravure; a cover in the "modern manner"; a history of tennis by William Tatem Tilden, 2nd; a history of dog fashions by Albert Payson Terhune...
Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
...year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late ice, Wisconsin did not start rowing this year in good season. Washington, which had beaten Wisconsin, seemed a powerful heavy crew...