Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dead. Eight passengers were killed when the famed Scarborough Express collided in the fog with a local train near Hull, wounding 30. Cross Channel Service was suspended for the first time in 50 years. Their Majesties, the King and Queen of the Belgians, in London to open an exhibit of Flemish art, were unable to get back to Belgium by either sea or air until the fog cleared. The loss to steamship concerns exceeded...
...Honan province the local "Scholar" War Lord Wu Pei-fu was holding back troops of the Peking War Lord Chang Tso-lin which had been despatched to defend Shanghai from the Nationalists by the Peking-Manchuria faction...
Besides the "Sawdust Trail" stands, in immediate local interest, the editorial wherein Pegasus reveals himself shaking his intelligent head doubtfully in meditation upon the probable results of an adoption of the rumored proposal to shorten the terms of lectures in the college year. The rest of the editorial columns are filled by the engaging Leander Snipe, who writes from upper New York State to recount the unfortunate falling out between those pillars of the Advocate's staff in other years, W. D. Edmonds and Essenz von Biershaum. Leanaer's letter has in it more life and warmth than...
...Harvard '21. He frees his father of all the heavy work connected with publishing the Des Moines Register & Evening Tribune. Last week it was his name, not his father's, that was signed to a statement announcing that the Register-Tribune had bought and would absorb the local, competing Capital. Price: half a million...
Kreider-Rotzel Realty Co. (Youngstown, Ohio) and Campbell-Ewald (Detroit agency) for best local campaign. They sold land to the family man one day, to his wife the next...