Word: denvers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge did receive, last week, a telegram worded exactly as above except that THE DENVER POST was substituted for THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the self-descriptive blurb was LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE MISSOURI RIVER AND THE PACIFIC COAST. The telegram was signed by that dark, daring Desperate Desmond of Journalism, Frederick G. Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, onetime riverboat gambler...
There seemed to be two comical elements connected with the prize which the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver received last fortnight from the American Association for the Advancement of Science-"for the most important contribution to the study of tuberculosis during the last 10 years." One was a potato, an ordinary Irish tuber; the other the petiteness of the honorarium...
...Mullin, a graduate of Kansas University; Everett Dashoff, a graduate of Cornell University; C. I. Blare, a graduate of Columbia University; J. P. Davis, a graduate of Bates College; Milton Schilback, a graduate of the College, City of New York; J. R. Hellerstein, a graduate of the University of Denver; Herman Snyder, '27; R. A. Rockhill, a graduate of Dartmouth College; and George Rosier, a graduate of the College, City of New York...
...clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied him ever since; he has been store clerk or storekeeper in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. On $50 a month, he married Berta A. Hess of Denver. She died in 1910, left two sons.* By this time the Penney dry goods chain had been started. It now includes more than 1,000 links. Several years ago Mr. Penney felt his education was sparse. He closed his office every afternoon for 18 months, studied with a tutor. He attributes...
...evening in the year when the average student steps out of mediocrity and promenades, the peer of the best on the campus. The Prom is worth its price-and would be even if it cost as much as the Denver papers say it does. University of Colorado Silver and Gold