Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light a cigaret or write a letter home after being kicked off that train, before catching the last coach. If Jim Tully ever saw a circus train he would know that the last coach of every circus train that ever moved a mile out of the yards was the railroad caboose, not the last coach of the circus. And if he did catch the last coach why did he risk his precious life crawling over the top of the coaches in a vain effort to reach the engineer when it would have been much easier to step into the cupola...
...circus travel "as far inland as Beaumont, Tex." This city is a port, according to Rand McNally, the Southern Pacific Railroad, my own observations, the United States Shipping Board and other authorities. Of course if Mr. Tully insists that it is inland perhaps you can prevail upon these authorities to change their statements...
...Otto Hermann Kahn, once a cashier in a German bank at Carlsruhe, came to the U. S. during the panic of 1893. A few years later he was helping E. H. Harriman reorganize the Union Pacific Railroad. President Roosevelt said of him: 'The soundest economic thinking in this country is now being done by Otto H. Kahn." He sits on the board of directors of the Equitable Trust; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mainly he is known for his patronage of the arts?principally the Metropolitan Opera. Last year he endowed the New Playwrights Theatre (Man-hattan). In 1896, he married Addie...
...sermon fell the press comments that a few had expected for Sir Arthur Keith's speech. Said the New York Times, for example: "The Bishop of Ripon can hardly have been serious." Sir Oliver Lodge said that the good Bishop reminded him of his grandmother, who viewed with alarm railroad trains going 40 m.p.h...
Died. Lave Cross, famed baseball player, third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics who lost the 1905 World's Series to McGraw's New York Giants; in Toledo. Though third baseman, he played his position with a catcher's mitt.- Died. Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, 68, famed railroad surgeon, one of those who attended President William McKinley at the assassination by one Leon Czologosz in 1901 at Buffalo;† at Randolph...