Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ironside had finished preaching on a circuit ringing Stony Brook, L. I., Asbury Park, N. J. and Winona Lake, Ind., he had written 50,000 words which his secretary finished typing on the last day of August, mailed to the American Tract Society in Manhattan. There a committee representing six different denominations unanimously agreed that Dr. Ironside's treatise was the best of 29 submitted by U. S. ministers and professors in competition for a $1,000 prize offered by Mrs. Finley Johnson Shepard, great & meritorious daughter of the late & notorious Jay Gould...
Sixty times in Canada's Buffalo National Park one day last week Assistant Game Warden Samuel Purshell raised his rifle, aimed, fired. At rundown 60 buffalo lay dead. Next day, as eleven herd riders drove more shaggy victims into the huge enclosure where he worked. Warden Purshell repeated his butchery. Progressing at the rate of 60 animals per day, his goal was 1,500 dead buffalo...
...when its buffalo were almost gone, the Canadian Government purchased a herd of 738 from Montana, established them in a 125,000-acre buffalo park near Wainwright, Alberta. The original 738 have since increased to some 23,000 and, despite scattering of specimens over Canada and the world, the Park herd requires a periodic thinning out. Warden Purshell was reducing a herd of 6,000. Buffalo meat is relished by Canadian gourmets, buffalo-hide overcoats esteemed by Royal Northwest Mounted Police...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
Near Asbury Park, N. J., Invalid Hermann Schaar, 65, had his sons push his wheelchair into the woods, sat still while his dogs rounded up game, bagged six rabbits without moving...