Word: ky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danville, Ky. Lost A Railroad Forever...
Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...Sept. 25, 1931 a great crowd of farmers collected at Columbia, Ky. to celebrate the Traylor-for-President boom. The wives brought baskets of food, and an old-fashioned dinner was spread at noon under the trees, near the fields where Mel Traylor had spent afternoons plucking tobacco worms. A Bowling Green banker orated: "He reminds us of another man, born just a short distance from here at Hodgenville, whose strange, sad wisdom influenced his nation . . . the world...
Divorced. By Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, 28, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, sometime Imperial Russian Army major general, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant: Bruce Smith, son of President Thomas Smith of Louisville Paper Co.; in Louisville, Ky. Charge: cruelty...