Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pioneer Trails. All normal children and those adults in whose mouths the taste of story book Indian blood is still strong will doubtless approve of Pioneer Trails. A masterly massacre is accomplished, in which a convoy of prairie schooners with their entire personnel, is wiped out. One small child escapes, to reappear 20 years later as the hero. Thereafter, the plot is simply a stencil, cut with the old familiar tools...
...work and the most effective means for organizing such work. Both men have had considerable experience in deputation work. Mr. Robinson, both at Boston University and the University of Southern California, where he studied formerly, has been active in this form of social service. Mr. Ross is also a pioneer in this form of work. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth in 1908-9 he organized some of the earliest deputation groups of Dartmouth men, who visited various schools and communities in New Hampshire in an effort to bring before the high school students of the locality the value of college...
Died. Lyman Stewart, 83, pioneer Californian oilman, at Los Angeles. Starting three years before John D. Rockefeller, he built up the Union Oil Co., now capitalized...
...Dunster House book shop was the pioneer organization to settle on the corner. There the discriminating browser could buy mossy antique volumes of the Middle Ages or quaint little English magazines whose price was marked in shillings and charged in dollars...
...Story. Some 40 years ago- in the days of the railroad aristocracy, when life was more spacious- the Forrester place at Sweet Water was known from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and a certain charm of atmosphere. There lived Captain Daniel Forrester, pioneer-hearted, a man whose age was the age of a strong pine, and Marian, his second wife, 25 years younger than himself. It was from her that the charm of the house proceeded- that delightful and airy lady, vivid as her garnet earrings. Niel Herbert, young friend of the Forresters, grew up with the touch...