Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down train from London stopped at Ringwood, Hants, last week, and Fred Perceval and his boy, and Harry Trimmer and his wife, all of Priddis, Alberta, Canada, got out. Harry Trimmer is postmaster at Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...
Last week Mrs. Willebrandt called for the resignation of Warren Snook in 30 days "because of utter want of administrative ability." The warden had announced that he was prepared to depart from the U. S. service and return to his Idaho ranch unless Mrs. Willebrandt ceased sending snoopers. Mr. Snook promptly sent forward his resignation, not to Mrs. Wille brandt, but to Attorney General Mitchell...
...under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead in his garage, killed by monoxide gas, less than a year ago. Surviving is Brother Zack Miller...
Circus. To thousands of U. S. citizens the 101 Ranch Wild West Show represented the embodiment, the incarnation of that vanished West in which cowboys had not become associated with drugstores and Indians were not graduates of Carlisle. Many a European, too, saw the 101 Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers...
Farm. Yet though it is the 101 Ranch Show that has carried the fame of the Millers from Tulsa to Borneo, it is the 101 Ranch itself which represents the Miller Brothers' greatest accomplishment. The Ranch today includes 110,000 acres, 45,000 of which are owned by the Miller family...