Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no typographical error. Trap-shooting contests for Elks were held at Coney Island, a Cincinnati play park...
...President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using...
...hear shouts of 'death to the Americans in the streets. . . . Six hundred or maybe 1,000 strong, the forces of General Augusto Calderon Sandino surround the Americans under Major Gilbert Hatfield and attack from all sides. . . . The fighting becomes general. . . . Our constabulary fight bravely in the Municipal Park. . . . American sharpshooters keep the corners clear. ... A Browning and two Lewis guns rake the yard. . . . Anyone so imprudent as to cross meets death...
...hosts of Sandino sweep on, attempting to capture the park, to use the stone wall for protection. It is now daylight?the Americans have not retreated an inch. The constabulary maintain their positions. The American sharpshooters are piling up the dead...
...park and inside the houses are Sandino's dead. In one place I count 21 and I have not looked around...