Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called epochal. For two milleniums and more, Emperors, Kings, men and freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
Married. C. Shelby Carter, descendant of King Carter, first governor of colonial Virginia, great-great-grandson of Col. Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky and hero of King's Mountain Battle; to Mary Spingler King, scioness of the Van Beuren family; at Convent...
President Coolidge put in an appearance at his offices in the Superior, Wis., high school. He was brown and fatter. He had no news. He soon returned to Brule and for the next two days Superior had nothing better to talk about than "Old Mountain," a legendary trout of monster proportions (35 Ibs. and up) which is supposed to live where the Presidential flies are now dropping. On the President's second office visit, he received some St. Paul and Minneapolis businessmen who felt obliged to him for signing a bill this spring to extend a Government barge line...
...publisher of his other newspaper, the Chattanooga, Tenn., Times. Fifty guests (including the president of the Advertising Club of New York, members of the Merchants' Association, Chamber of Commerce, and many a newspaperman) were transported from Manhattan to Chattanooga on a special Ochs train. A banquet at Lookout Mountain Hotel (new) and the official designation of Mr. Ochs as "Citizen Emeritus of Chattanooga" were features. The Chattanooga Times put out an edition of 160 pages (64 in rotogravure...
...Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...