Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 20 state governors gathered last week at Mackinac Island, Mich., made speeches, ate dinners, held round table discussions. Gentlemen all, and realizing that the personnel of the meeting included both Democrats and Republicans, the Governors discussed most controversial questions in a non-controversial manner. Prohibition, so burning a question that it is almost certain to provoke heated debate, they did not even mention. Among prominent governors present were Lennington Small, Illinois; John E. Martineau, Arkansas; Ed Jackson, Indiana; John Hammill, Iowa; Ralph O. Brewster, Maine (president of the conference) ; and Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland. Among prominent governors...
There was no typographical error. Trap-shooting contests for Elks were held at Coney Island, a Cincinnati play park...
Last week, when the Kingsway came to anchor off Staten Island, N. Y., Federal men took Mr. Battice ashore to be tried for murder, with Donkeyman Badke a material witness and statutory offender. Seamen Hans Malibar, Frederick Kline, Alex Christiansen, Sig Scvhwanborg and Erik Anderson, with Thomas Murray, acting first mate and onetime bosun, were held pending formal entry of the almost obsolete charge, "mutiny on the high seas...
Between Aug. 16?31: The Tri Cities-Moline, Davenport and Rock Island; Milwaukee, Madison; Twin Cities-St. Paul and Minneapolis; Little Falls, Fargo, Sioux City, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver...
...Popularly thought of as the "leper island" and called "The Land of the Living Death." Actually, the Molokai leper colons -made famous through the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson and by the successful experiments there with chaulmoogra oil, leprosy specific-occupies only a small triangle of land around the isolated village of Kalaupapa, inaccessible save by an arduous path which is easily guarded. Only about 40 lepers now remain at the colony, many having been discharged in recent years after chaulmoogra oil treatment. Molokai itself is fifth in size of the Hawaiian group, having an area about one-fifth...