Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Emerson Hough, whose Oregon Trail novel, The Covered Wagon, was cinematized to great advantage this year, died in Chicago three months ago (TIME, May 5) aged 66. He was born in Newton, of pioneer parentage. He was a graduate of the University of Iowa and began his career as a lawyer in White Oaks, a cow-town "where undertakers were more in demand than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include...
...sudden death from pneumonia of Dr. Hermann Michael Biggs, New York State Health Commissioner, removes perhaps the most distinguished state or city health officer in the U. S.-a man even more widely known abroad than at home as a pioneer in both the laboratory and administrative phases of preventive medicine. He had been Commissioner continuously since 1914, under both Republican and Democratic Governors, who recognized the folly of breaking up the splendidly efficient organization which Dr. Biggs had built...
Married. Mrs. Dorothy Caldwell Taylor, 35, former wife of Claude Grahame-White, British aeronautical pioneer, to Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso, 47, former member of the Italian Parliament, at the home of Whitney Warren, architect, Manhattan. Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., was present...
Advices to the Pioneer of Allahabad, India, stated that more than 1,000 persons were killed by seismic shocks in the little Persian town of Turbat-i-Haidari in the province of Khorasan which forms part of the great Iranian Desert plateau. The sheets lasted several hours and it is feared that many villages adjacent to Turbat-i-Haidari were devastated with a consequent further loss of life...
Died. Major Thomas Scott Baldwin, 69, pioneer in aviation and the inventor of the parachute. (See page...