Word: oshkosh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, two enterprising Midwesterners of 19 sat up all night for the distinction of being the fair's first sightseers. Midwesterners, when they age and retire, make their way by thousands to Southern California. Hence last week bent, grey-headed Howard Jackson, a onetime publisher of Oshkosh, Wis., was the first man to hand his ticket to a sombreroed gatekeeper and pass through the turnstile at San Diego's California Pacific International Exposition...
...Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde loveliness, she quickly cast off her impecunious young husband. Tabor married her, 30 years his junior, as soon as he could get rid of the aging Vermont wife who had struggled up to the rim of riches with...
...then one creates new clothes of tradition and atmosphere, for no university that gives its professor of rhetoric the right to graze a cow in its courts need envy the anachronisms of Europe, and the sense that one's dinner companion may hail from Augusta, or Miami, or Oshkosh, not to mention Gunsight or Broken Bow or Eagle Butte, gives one spatial contacts that are as cherished as the chronological ones of Europe...
...Last week a Wisconsin Legislative committee at Madison was winding up a series of investigations into the conduct of State hospitals for the insane. Samples of testimony offered by inmates, relatives, onetime attendants: ¶ Among attendants at Oshkosh's hospital, to "neck out" means to rope a wet towel around an inmate's neck, twist. On Jan. 26 an attendant "necked out" Inmate Oscar Schrader so thoroughly that he died. Five other Oshkosh deaths apparently resulted from brutal treatment. ¶ When Clark Lyman entered Mendota's hospital on Feb. 14, 1931 he was in good physical condition...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Pauper Mamie Gehrke, cashing her city food slip, shrilled at Grocer Jacobs that she would take her trade elsewhere if he did not cash her slips for cigarets instead of food. Grocer Jacobs had Pauper Gehrke arrested...