Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, having laid by a small fortune after years of playing a street piano in Peoria, Ill., Giuseppe Canzona tried to buy at the present reduced rate ten round-trip steamer tickets to Italy good for the next ten years. The steamship line accommodated him for five years...
...Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad). The Nickel Plate is now a system of some 1,600 mi. The main part of the road consists of two great arcs, one curving between Buffalo and Chicago, the other between Detroit and St. Louis. An important branch runs to Peoria. Last year it carried 36,551.000 tons of freight, collected $36,551.000 in gross revenue...
...Hadley, Edwin Marshall--b. Peoria, Ill. Oct. 14, 1872, eighth in lineal descent from Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottinghamshire to N. E. 1630. With others organized the Dudley Coffee Co. (importers) and the Ceylon Planters Tea Co. (and many others) One of organizers Ill. Reserve Militia. Chicago Boy Scout Committeeman. Winner many athletic trophies. Contbr, to mags., orator, after dinner speaker. Republican. Reformed Episcopalian...
...rumbled by. the Son of Heaven stepped down, entered a state coach and, escorted by a squadron of lancers, rolled back to the Imperial Palace. Just outside the Palace grounds the cavalcade turned in through the Sakuradamon or Cherry Village Gate. A Mr. James L. Vierhus, employe of a Peoria. Ill., tractor firm, was standing on the curb. Afterwards he told what happened...
...city editor will be reading copy, probably in Pittsburgh, or helping somebody on a publicity job, or pasting up clippings and mumbling to himself; and the baseball manager will end his days as an umpire in the Three-Eye League or as the boss of a bowling alley in Peoria...