Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...canned goods fell from shelves, walls cracked, furniture slid. In Milton, Mass, a woman telephoned to police to find out whether the Navy ammunition depot at Hingham had blown up. In White Plains, N. Y. a filling-station attendant yelled that the Kensico dam had burst. In South Portland, Me. a woman got dizzy, fell down, hurt her head. In Manhattan's Harlem a man fell...
...Conway, N. H. a church bell started an eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were...
Died. Carrie Belle Adams, 81, retired organist of Portland, Ore.'s First Congregational Church, most prolific U. S. composer of anthems (4,000); in Portland...
Last week roly-poly (200 lb., 5 ft. 8 in.) Harry Gokey, 71,. retired vaudeville trouper, made his bid for No. 1 U. S. professional Santa by booking a round of Clausing (at $5 to $25 an appearance) in Portland, Ore. private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas...
Retailers even expanded their plants. In Manhattan, on the site of Flo Ziegfield's first Follies, the Bond clothing chain opened its 60th men's store (largest in the U. S.), set in motion a 26,000-suit assembly line. Same week, in Portland, Ore., Fred Meyer opened his tenth "unit" (which sells everything from groceries to Opening" that included cake-baking contests, daily vaudville, dog shows, a Ferris wheel, a free suckling pig, and eight performing lions, Merchandiser Meyer attracted 100,000 visitors in six days...