Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folger, insurance man, is San Francisco's favorite amateur entertainer. So well-loved is he that his friends recently gave him a business and a secretary to run it for him. Last week he was homebound (via New Orleans) on a coast-to- coast roundtrip given him by the Family Club, a San Francisco comity which each year bestows good things on some one. To Roy Folger they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards...
Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
...line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which...
...Francisco one Edward Hiebel was sued for $20,500 damages by Mrs. Alvena Marchant because he dropped telephone slugs down her back and she broke her leg in trying to avoid...
University Scholarships have been awarded to George Francis Robinson Heap '28, Walter John Arthur Huchthausen 2 S.A., and William Stewart Rogers 2 S.A. The Harvard Club of San Francisco Scholarship is held by Chester Orville Root...