Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of a shortage of funds and hence of police, the Chief of Detectives of St. Petersburg, Fla., accepted an offer of the Ku Klux Klan to furnish patrols gratis, sans robes, sans masks...
Hagen vs. Walker. "WORLD'S UNOFFICIAL CROWN TO BE CONTESTED," blared the headlines. At St. Petersburg, Fla., Cyril Walker, 1924 U. S. Open Champion, was to play 72 holes with sleek Walter Hagen, 1924 British Open Champion. Spade never digged a pit as murky, foul, treacherous as that which gapes for the spirit of a golfer who is off his form. Into that pit plunged Cyril Walker and thus did sleek Wal- ter become unofficial golf champion of the world. Hagen, at the end, was "17 and 15". Of 57 holes played, Walker won but 7, tied...
...William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 29, champion pugilist, to Mrs. Ida Estelle Peacock (Estelle Taylor), cinema actress ; in San Diego. In procuring the license, Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man," Miss Taylor her age as 26 (probable age, 32). Died. Julius Fleischmann, 53, famed philanthropist, sportsman; in Miami, Fla. He dropped dead of heart disease while engaged in a game of polo. Son of Charles Fleischmann, founder of the famed Fleischmann Yeast Co., Mr. Fleischmann was elected Mayor of Cincinnati when he was 28, was reflected for a second term in 1903, was asked to run for a third...
Died. George W. Cable, 80, famed writer of romances of the New Orleans Creoles; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After the Civil War (when he served in the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry), he endeavored to revive the former glories of the South by writing of its people, its customs. The Creoles of Louisiana were immortalized in Old Creole Days. The Grandissimes, The Creoles of Louisiana, Madame Delphine, Dr. Sevier. When ignorant and prejudiced persons objected to his delineations of octoroons and quadroons and his delicate ridicule of some of the provincialisms of the Creoles, he went North and made his home...
...Miami, Fla...