Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lode of California 59 years ago and one of his parents had Mayflower ancestors. He is one of those persons who has been vaguely "associated with" and "closely allied with" various famous people. His biography gives a onetime State Engineer of New York, the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, and the late Major-General Leonard Wood, as references. He "has travelled in many parts of the world, sometimes by direction of a President of the United States." Also: "He has attended at different times the services of almost every one of the major religious sects...
CLAIR E. MORRISON Manager, KYA San Francisco, Calif...
...Resignations were accepted bu Il Capo Del Governo.* last week, from the chief executives of Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome. It was as though President Calvin Coolidge should suddenly oust the mayors of San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and New York. All Italy wondered why?and presently Il Capo designed to tell...
Local San Francisco news...
...house in the mining camps. To her table came John W. Mackay, Irish immigrant miner. They were married. The famed Comstock Lode, in the opening of which he was an entrepreneur, yielded $300,000,000 in gold and silver within six years. Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand...