Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...park but did not, owing to Congressional apathy, Mr. Leonard announced a buffalo hunt. First to arrive was none other than the international president of all the Kiwanis Clubs, Ralph A. Amerman of Scranton, Pa., with his brother Edward and a third big game hunter, J. O. Beebe of Omaha. Mounted on tough cayuses, guided by William Powell, astute Indian, attended by four cowboys, the four sportsmen were to hunt until each had made one kill in true pioneer fashion (shooting from the saddle). Then Guide Powell was to take other parties out. A hunt with 50 participating was planned...
...that Mr. Jim Tully has out-lined the finer points of vagrancy and Mr. Vachel Lindsay is reviving the custom of wandering poets, the National Association of Hoboes, meeting in convention at Omaha, has come to the realization that its members are gradually being admitted into the fellowship of respectable citizens. In order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand...
...pressed the receiver tighter and tighter to her ear, Helen Park was more and more mystified. Some one was telling her she had to go to California the next week ... by airplane . . . stopping overnight in Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Wichita, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City ... all expenses paid . . . $50 spending money . . . See America First . . . glorious . . . winner . . . congratulations . . . 12,000 contestants . . . and a return ticket . . . who? . . . Cove? Kove? GOVE, Gove, GOVE? Lydia Pinkham? ... At last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling...
Matthews Brokerage Co. Omaha...
...years ago in Omaha, Neb., one Tony Veneziano clutched his throat and toppled into the gutter, never to move again. One Paul Blackwood, accused of his murder, pleaded self-defense, was set free. Last week some gentlemen behind a fence shot and killed Blackwood and his wife as they walked home from the theatre. A detective questioned Mrs. Veneziano...