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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enlighten you as to who you were dealing with and possibly you will get a smile out of the affair as well as I. San Quentin happens to be in itself a very small little town but whenever anyone ever refers to San Quentin everyone else knows that they mean the State Prison and we are a little city by ourselves of some 3,500 inhabitants at the present time find growing right along. Personally I came here in 1922 to serve a sentence of 25 years but due to the humanity of one or two of our State Board...
Father Anguiano, 70, protested: "I did not mean to rebel against the Church. ... I think the Holy See has been misinformed regarding the religious situation...
Barnum: "You don't mean to say you will never marry?" Nutt: "No, not exactly." Barnum: "I suppose you intend to marry one of your size...
...Wall Street Journal, author of many articles analyzing Florida]. "Those who do not like Gory Cables can go to hell. Fifty million dollars have already been spent on this Elysium. Most of this has been for publicity. ... On the highest point, which is approximately five feet eight inches above mean, low down, dirty sea level, they are going to build a beautiful early Spanish missing-style $10,000,000.35 insane asylum. They got the idea from Dr. [Roach] Straton when he was down here following vice when it moved south for the winter...
...salesmen to explain what we mean-Dodge Brothers...