Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kelly of Pa. (manager)............................ *McMillan of S. C. (manager) Fish of N. Y. (pitcher)...........................Gallivan of Mass. (pitcher) Appleby of N. J.....................................Somers of N. Y. Hogg of Ind.........................................Lanham of Tex. Bacharach of N.J....................................Wilson of Miss. Britten of Ill.................................... .Green of Fla. Morin of Pa.......................................Tydings of Md. Gorman of Ill.......................................Chapman of Ky. Updike of Ind. Crumpacker...
Edison. In Manhattan, the Edison Pioneers celebrated with a dinner the 79th birth anniversary of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Mr. Edison basked in the sun at Fort Myers, Fla., but sent them a telegram: "Many thanks. Feeling fine. Weather beautiful. Coconuts are dropping all over the place. Wish you were here." To newspapermen of whom he entertained two large parties during the day, he said: "I couldn't retire. Just like trying to stop smoking cigarets. . . . Inventions are away ahead of the people...
Died. William Madison Wood, 68, famed founder and retired President of the American Woolen Co., world's largest textile concern, son of a Portugese sea cook named Jacintho (who later took the name William Jason Wood), at Daytona Beach, Fla., by shooting himself through the mouth. He had long had ill health...
...branch of the Southern Pacific). Other lines stretch from St. Louis to Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Altogether it covers 14 Midland states. At St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and elsewhere it makes contact with the Frisco. Thus the southern termini of the merged lines will be Pensacola, Fla., on the east, and Fort Worth, Tex., on the west; in the north Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis; in the west Denver; and in the near east, St. Louis. The proposed merger brings out some intricacies of railroad financing. The Rock Island and the Southern Pacific have long worked together...
Died. Dr. Charles Edgar Welch, 73, famed President of several concerns forming the so-called "Welch's Grape Juice pool"; at St. Petersburg, Fla., of acute indigestion. He was a lifelong total abstainer, an ardent exponent of prohibition, co-discoverer with his father of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice," trustee of the Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua N. Y., six times President of Westfield, N. Y., "dry" candidate for Governor of N. Y. in 1916, one-time dentist...