Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could have taken leave and traveled home in comfort on a liner, but he is a first-class soldier and he preferred to travel in the same manner the less fortunate officers of the Army as to rank and money are obliged to travel under orders. . . . MAY WALKER BURLESON Fort Sam Houston, Tex. ClNCUS...
...spring of 1914, the year the Alaska Railroad was begun. Frank Adams, John Holmberg and Tom Jensen loaded up with salt pork, coffee and flour at Fort Yukon and went prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
...most spectacular of any food industry during the Depression. The man who put spiced tomato juice cocktail on the market was Ernest Byfield, Chicago's most famed hotelkeeper. From his father the late Joseph Byfield he inherited the Hotel Sherman Co. (Ambassador East, Ambassador West, the Sherman, the Fort Dearborn) and its subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co., which the elder Byfield had started to can foods prepared by restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately...
About the time John Tyler was President of the U. S., the Creeks were looking with awe and reverence on a child that had been born among them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records...
After the parade Lord Bessborough refused to sign the distinguished visitors' book at Toronto's Old Fort, departed in a huff...