Word: frankforter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midwinter day in 1900, three men entered the gate in front of Kentucky's capitol at Frankfort and started walking toward the edifice. Halfway through the grounds stands a fountain, the overflow of which had only partly frozen on the path. As the three men turned aside to avoid the sludge, five rifle shots were fired with terrible deliberation and enormous echoes from a lower window of the capitol. One of the men near the fountain collapsed, mortally wounded...
TIME stands corrected. The Mercury Air Tour begins on July 14 when passengers sail from Manhattan on the S. S. Tuscania. At London they will take plane for Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfort, Nuremberg, Munich, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Paris-finally sailing for the U. S. on Aug. 25. Total cost of the tour will...
...Gilbert, a composer of distinction, will give a lecture at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Paine Hall on "The Frankfort Musical Festival of 1927," with some comments upon the contemporary music as revealed by the programs of this festival...
...Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine guns. . . ." On leaving St. Louis, Evangelist Sunday will proceed to Iola, Kan., for six weeks of pouncing, bouncing, trouncing preaching; then he will go to Greenville...
...Frankfort. Ky., small Fleming Thompson, aged 13. put on a top hat and canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...