Word: davenports
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy your magazine TIME very much. I am 12 years old and live in Davenport, Iowa. I find in your issue of TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, that an item entitled "Shrewd," the second item under the head of "Miscellany," is sort of funny. It is about a man that cheats a store proprietor out of a lot of money on a telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality...
...Davenport, Iowa...
...dance began. Charlestoners, male and female, from Akron, Cleveland, Canton, McKeesport, Pa.; from Detroit and Toledo; from Wichita, Kan., Cedar Rapids, Clinton, Davenport, Topeka, Omaha, and Waterloo, la.; from Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Fort Wayne, Joliet and Peoria, 111.; from Charleston, Little Rock, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Tulsa, Okla., branded their shinbones and burned their heels, clutched each other, pumping, weaving, while the fiddles whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys...
Divorced. Frank Tinney, famed comedian, by an interlocutory decree granting $200 a week alimony and the custody of his son to Edna Davenport Tinney; at Mineola, L. I. Said she: "I may remarry Frank." Meanwhile they plan to tour the country together as a vaudeville team. Uncharitable persons allege that the divorce will create a favorable reaction at the boxoffice...
...Bernays, H. B. Lloyd-Jones, and H. J. Wedderburn will be the Oxford speakers, and Yale will be represented by Basil Davenport. H. T. Rowell, and C. H. Willard, of the Senior class...