Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aerolite by a farmer near Hugoton, Kans. Buried a yard deep in the ground, it was the most massive aerolite ever turned up in that State.* Mr. Nininger bought the ponderous stone on the spot, and the finder hoisted it into his trailer, started hauling it to Denver where Mr. Nininger is curator of meteorites at the Colorado Museum of Natural History...
...secretly married in Missouri some months before. The agents whom Tabor had sent abroad to find Queen Isabella's jewels, it developed, had never left the U. S. And on March 4 Tabor's 30-day term as Senator ended and he returned with "Baby Doe" to Denver...
...silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came an end to the story of the fabulous Tabors...
...grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband. Tabor married her, 30 years his junior, as soon...
...turn of the year Denver & Rio Grande Western (mileage: 2,571) defaulted on a $40,000,000 bond issue but under the terms of the indenture was allowed a 60-day period of grace to make good. Last week that grace period expired without action. Though the bondholders may now throw the road into receivership, the directors hastily announced that a reorganization plan would be ready within a month...