Word: paso
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Circular letters explaining the advantages of a home for unmarried mothers are lewd, lascivious, obscene; and hence are improper matter for the U. S. mails. So said two Federal courts in Texas, while sentencing Dr. John C. Dysart, proprietor of the Queen Anne Private Home at El Paso, Tex., to five years in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and fining him $2,500. Proprietor Dysart, it seems, had sent out some form letters, intended for physicians; but several of the letters fell into the feminine hands of El Paso schoolteachers. Irate, they called in the law. Proprietor Dysart was found guilty...
...flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked to El Paso-"Send us help." Then the ceiling fell...
Zebulon M. Pike rests in a military cemetery at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. Last week the El Paso County (Col.) Pioneers' Society requested the Secretary of War to permit the removal of his remains to Pike's Peak. In 1806, as an army lieutenant, Pike went out to explore the new Louisiana Purchase, scaled a neighboring mountain, looked upon what is now called Pike's Peak, and declared it "never could be scaled by man." After the Pioneers' Society has shown him, he will not be so incredulous...
These papers were: Akron Press, Baltimore Post, Birmingham, Post, Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen, Denver Express, El Paso Post, Evansville Press, Fort Worth Press, Houston Press, Knoxville News, Indianapolis Times, Memphis Press, New Mexico State Tribune, Oklahoma News, Pittsburgh Press, San Diego Sun, San Francisco Daily News, Terre Haute Post, Toledo News Bee, Washington Daily News, Youngstown Telegram, Kentucky Post...
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