Word: fairmont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 50,000 people poured into small (pop. 5,521) Fairmont, Minn. Besides hotels every spare room for miles around was filled. Though 23 restaurant stands were set up to peddle hamburgers, hot dogs and coffee, many a prudent farmwife brought along great hampers of cold fried chicken, head cheese, hams, doughnuts, layer cakes and pies. Twenty-four State police directed the jammed traffic of cars from as far away as Kansas and Ohio. More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event-the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship...
...noon thousands covered the hill above Fairmont Canning Co.'s field. They struggled down the slope and along the lanes cut four rows wide through the 15-acre patch of specially planted corn. In the field stood 18 huskers with their managers and trainers. Beside each was his brand new steel wagon drawn by a rubber-tired tractor. While four bands played and loudspeakers blared, National Guardsmen did their best to keep the friendly crowd from getting in the way of the contestants...
Sherman Henriksen of Eagle, Neb., the defending champion, was a favorite, but even some Nebraskans favored Harry Brown, from Beemer, up in Cuming County. He had placed second last year. To spur on two Iowa entrants, Estherville sent its Drum & Bugle Corps to Fairmont. The folks from Redwood Falls, Minn, brought along the town band to cheer on their Ted Balko, 29, four times Minnesota champion, fifth in national honors last year...
Harvard Club of Fairmont, James O. Watson '00, Secretary, Watson Bldg., Fairmont, W. Va.; Harvard Club of Cincinnati, Franklin H. Lawson '21, Secretary, Evans & Whateley Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio; Harvard Club of Dayton, Louis R. Mahrt, Secretary, 901-905 Winters Bank Bldg., Dayton, Ohio; Harvard Club of Michigan, John D. Rice, Secretary, 2288 First National Bank Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; Harvard Club of Chicago, Dwight Ingram '16, Secretary, 14 E. Jackson Bivd., Chicago...
...Leake knew many an important San Franciscan, including Senator Shortridge whose son & wife he "treated." Through the Shortridges he met Harold Louderback. They became intimate friends. As a State judge, Louderback appointed Leake to at least two court positions. As a Federal Judge, Louderback used Leake's Fairmont Hotel room (No. 26) for years as a hideaway while he was having divorce difficulties with Mrs. Louderback in another county. Many of the Louderback receivers took Leake "treatments...