Word: fla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned to painting, scurried around Europe studying old masters. The first transcontinental telephone conversation in 1915 was between Bell in Manhattan and Watson in San Francisco. The words were familiar, epochal: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!" Bell died in 1922. Last week, in St. Petersburg. Fla., Thomas Augustus Watson's 80-year-old heart stopped dead...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a crowd of 300 last week set out to watch Olin Dutra, U. S. Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made...
Died. Thomas Augustus Watson, So, manufacturer of the first telephone; of heart failure; in St. Petersburg, Fla...
...Apopka, Fla...
...bear the name of James A. Wetmore, Acting Supervising Architect, he is proudest of the one under the new post office in his native Bath. He laid that one himself, in 1931. The trowel, suitably engraved, hangs over his mantel. He will take it with him to Coral Gables, Fla., where he plans to pass the rest of his days...