Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abraham Owen Smoot crossed the plains in 1846 with Brigham Young, was mayor of Salt Lake City when the U. S. Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
Other papers used even larger capitals. The Boston Globe ran pictures and story five columns wide. Yet Mrs. Christie had done nothing unusual, was just housekeeping at Red Lake Falls, Minn. Why, then, news...
...Lake Falls, Minn...
...Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...
Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with...