Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Douglas Horton, Minister of Leyden Congregational Church, Brookline, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8:45 o'clock...
...knew from what part of the hills the boys had come. A crowd collected and dogged their steps wherever they went around Tonopah. They kept their mouths shut until a train from Los Angeles pulled in, bringing the desert-bitten figure of Frank Horton, whom most of the Southwest remembers as one of the big win-and-losers in the Goldfield rush of 1902. One of the boys was his son, Frank Horton Jr. Tonopah sizzled with excitement while these two and young Horton's buddy, Leonard Traynor, shut themselves up for a talk...
There the rushers found Frank Horton Sr. triumphant on the site he bought for $25,000 six years ago. They fanned out and staked the plains for six miles all around the "strike." Icy winds whipped down from the range but fresh goldrushers swarmed up against it by scores every hour. A blizzard swooped in, but claim pegs flew in with the snow...
...hilariously funny that the stupidity of this, his second effort, is acutely painful. The comedy is supposed to flow from the well-intentioned blunder of a hero so nitwitful that he pays $300 for a broken-down taxi on a rainy night. Marion Nixon is cute, opposite Edward Everett Horton, lummox...
Died. Loton Horton, 72, President, Sheffield Farms Co., Chairman of Board, National Dairy Products Co. (world's largest dairy firm); in Nice, France; of pneumonia. He started life driving a milk wagon for his uncle...