Word: denvers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gamblers, western bartenders, lottery sharpers of the Mississippi Valley, touts, awoke New Year's Day to a surprise; pondered the resolution of Publisher Fred G. Bonfils: Through his Denver Post he announced the establishment of the Frederick G. Bonfils Foundation for the "Betterment of Mankind." Said...
...business partner with whom he made the Denver Post a potent factor in Western life was H. H. Tammen, garrulous bartender...
...yielded Deserter Doty, could not but yield Deserter Hargreaves. He, lucky, strode forth a free man from the French prison at Clairvaux. During debate on this matter in the Commons, last week, irate members recalled two recent instances in which British rights were flaunted in the U. S. At Denver, Col., one A. K. Orr, peaceful Briton, was held for 17 days by the police without a charge having ever been preferred against him. Furthermore, on the U. S. steamer Manatawny, it was alleged a British steward, one Fred Thomas, was recently chained to the deckrail and flogged. In neither...
...70th Congress assembles on Dec. 5. Its component parts began filtering into Washington last week. In Denver, a special election returned S. Harrison White, Democrat, the victor over State Senator Francis J. Knauss, Republican, to fill the vacancy in the House of Representatives left by the death of Representative William N. Vaile, Republican. That made the House membership...
...contain artificial gas. Artifical gas is made by heating coal in ovens. What remains of the coal is coke. Natural gas occurs under the earth and is pumped from wells through the mains, to customers. The longest gas main in the world connects the Texas natural gas field with Denver...