Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact no lord. His proper name is Captain the Hon. Lyulph Gilchrist Stanley Ogilvy. He was the second son of the seventh Earl of Airlie, who took him to Colorado on a visit in 1879, when Lyulph was a wild young blood of 18, and bought him a ranch near Greeley. There Lyulph spent 20 years living on his patrimony...
...Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...
Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...
Just before the 18 months were up, Mrs. Rolph had War Glory examined, was told he was suffering from a streptococcic infection of the genitals. Posthaste she notified all owners whose mares were at her ranch waiting to be serviced by War Glory, wired Mrs. Carreaud that she wished to cancel her contract. Mrs. Car reaud promptly shipped War Glory to Los Angeles, had her own tests made. The reports gave him a clean bill of health...
Last week Mrs. Carreaud sued Mrs. Rolph (and her husband, co-owner of the ranch) for slandering War Glory. His stud value impaired, the plaintiff asked $34,000 damages-$24,000 (because she said her handsome stallion, once worth $25,000, is now barely worth $1,000) and $10,000 still due on the four-year lease...