Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin party spent a few days at Banff, superb Alberta sports centre now being developed by the Cana dian Pacific System. At Banff jovial Mr. Baldwin submitted to initiation rites making him a "blood brother" of the local Stoney Indians who christened him "Sitting Eagle...
Gomez. Although several "opposition" candidates will take the field, none seems so likely to fire both the army and the populace in his support as does General Arnulfo R. Gomez, the Zone Commandant of the State of Vera Cruz, and virtually a local dictator there. Shrewd, he calls his followers...
There were seven local newspapers in Pittsburgh not so long ago. Soon mergers cut them to five. Last week William Randolph Hearst and Paul Block took the five down and shuffled them around, and now there are three. As result of a complicated deal, Mr. Block becomes publisher of a morning newspaper called the Post-Gazette, and Mr. Hearst of an evening print, the Sun-Telegraph. The Pittsburgh newspapers that melted into two were the Post, the Gazette-Times, the Sun and the Chronicle-Telegraph. The only other newspaper left in town is the Scripps-Howard-controlled Pittsburgh Press...
...Methodist ministers by tradition are not permitted to remain in their charges long enough to become local leaders. However, the success of Mareellus B. Fuller in making the Lakewood M. E. Church (at Cleveland) the largest of that denomination's congregation and of Merton Stacher Rice in making the Metropolitan Church of Detroit the second largest, each after several years with the same congregation, makes a change in Methodist clerical practice seem imminent, says editor W. B. Leach of Church Management...
...Elizabeth City, N. C., happened an accident, result of a practical joke, the account of which in the local newspaper was so quaint that the Journal of the American Medical Association reprinted it last week among...