Word: n
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grand Spectacle du Mississippi et Des Négres...
Ruth McConnell, 20, of Rochester, N. Y., took train for San Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family...
...London, plans were made for a chariot race, with six chariots, to be held early in 1929. In Pinehurst, N. C., a pig-race was held...
...years, then, was the Cleveland Orchestra when last week at home it celebrated the tenth year of its existence, the tenth also under Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff and Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes. There was a birthday concert at the Auditorium with the program which was given on Dec. n, 1918. There was a birthday dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron John L. Severance cut the cake. Composer Deems Taylor of Manhattan, guest...
...Ruth Kelso Wood was suing Gerald C. Wood, Chicago insurance broker, for divorce. Said Judge William N. Gemmill after hearing her plea...