Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Omaha last week postponed the opening of school one week on account of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, and planned further weekly postponements until frost ends the season of danger. Meanwhile Omaha children may not go to Sunday school, theatres, parks or swimming pools. Omaha has not a single mechanical...
Chief Quarantine Officer Akin snapped into action, ordered everyone quarantined aboard the docked Hansa. All passengers, however, had dispersed. To each went warnings by telephone or telegram advising him to beware of typhoid fever (which takes about two weeks to incubate), and to have doctors examine his blood, urine and...
Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying...
As he grew older, Owney became irritable and testy. The Post Office Department frowned on him. But in spite of official displeasure Owney's friends, the clerks, kept him traveling. Owney came to the end of his journeys in Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June...
In Union City, N. J., Charles Dempsey climbed onto a train. Just before the train reached Summit. N. J., Mr. Dempsey anxiously confided to the conductor that he could not remember whether he had turned off the electric iron in his apartment. As the train slowed down to pass through...