Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MURDER OF MRS. DAVENPORT−Anthony Gilbert−Dial...
...Scenario. Janey Davenport, fabulously an heiress, famously a beauty, jaunts over to Italy in her own yacht. Fortunately for the love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
...reporters were absolutely bent, baffled, and bewildered. They said that Famed Conjurer Dunninger was the legitimate successor to Harry Houdini. One man who had watched the exhibition of miracles was disgusted by them. He was Charles E. Davenport, the manager of Nino Pecoraro, a medium who had issued a challenge to Dunninger for a "phenomena producing" contest. After watching the things which Dunninger did, Davenport withdrew his challenge because Mr. Pecoraro was alleged not to be in the right psychic condition...
...Davenport, Yale '27: "Harvard has no football team this year, but it is superior to Yale in the quality of rum, which is never procurable at New Haven...
Between Aug. 16?31: The Tri Cities-Moline, Davenport and Rock Island; Milwaukee, Madison; Twin Cities-St. Paul and Minneapolis; Little Falls, Fargo, Sioux City, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver...