Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Calif...
...Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
Aware of this condition, the smartest of ballplayers, Tyrus Raymond Cobb* in company with George A. Putnam, Pacific coast baseball magnate, and Ernest C. Quigley, National League umpire, three months ago sailed from San Francisco to Japan. Last week having toured the country lecturing on baseball subjects at Keio, Waseda, Meiji and Osaka (four leading universities which, with a Japanese newspaper, paid for his trip) and having played nine baseball games in the capacity of first baseman, Ty Cobb returned with his party to San Francisco...
Elected. Paul Shoup, executive vice president of the Southern Pacific Railway, of Los Altos, Calif.; to be president, succeeding William Sproule of San Francisco on his retirement...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...