Word: paducah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oliver D. Ferguson of Paducah, Ky., appeared to have fought for Harvard with the most brilliance. He had kicked one policeman in the stomach, another in the chin. Not until a police club gashed his forehead could he be thrust into the patrol wagon. Policemen described him as "very strong...
Meanwhile a private concern, the National Potash Co., has discovered that oil wells at Paducah in western Texas yield 22% of potash. They sank a 1,600-ft. well, hoping for a yield of clean potash, but got too little for profit. They will sink five more test wells, they said last week...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...
...drug store for a strawberry sundae. There sat freckle-faced young Teacher Scopes, in his blue shirt and hand-painted bow tie, grinning with bashful curiosity at passers-by ("like the Prince of Wales," said one fanciful reporter) and listening to his proud father, Thomas Scopes of Paducah, Ky., exclaim: "John was always an extraordinary boy." Father Scopes was proceeding to uncomplimentary remarks about Lawyer Bryan when the son interrupted...