Word: reno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticed that times were growing especially hard for persons unhappily married. Throughout the U. S., courts were denying the legality of decrees obtained in certain Mexican states, previously havens for the fretfully wedded. Some Reno divorces were even questioned. And the French government, having discovered that U. S. divorces were bringing Paris much questionable publicity, and money for no one but U. S. lawyers, had drastically stiffened French requirements. Therefore Arturo del Toro determined to do something for persons shackled to distasteful mates; something also for the State of Sonora, and something for himself...
...also released for him to repay persons who lost money in backing his papers. This means that he was completely reconciled with his father. Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who had not approved of the newspaper ventures. After the family reunion, in Manhattan. Vanderbilt Jr. left for his ranch near Reno, Nev., to spend the holidays with his second wife, the former Mrs. Mary Weir Logan...
Casey pulled up that Reno hill, He tooted for the crossing with an awful shrill, The switchman knew by the engine's moans That the man at the throttle was Casey Jones. He pulled lip within two miles of the place, Number four stared him right in the face, Turned to the fireman, said; "Boys, you'd better...
Divorced. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan and cosmopolite; by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Baker, thrice-married turf-woman, divorced wife of Dr. Smith Hollis McKim of Baltimore (1911), widow of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who lost his life on the Lusitania; in Reno, Nev., Mr. Baker was said to be contemplating marriage to Mrs. Delphine I. Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late autotycoon Horace E. Dodge, divorced two weeks ago from James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker...
Divorced. Robert W. Daniel, banker of Washington, D. C.; by Mrs. Margery Durant Daniel, daughter of famed Stock-marketeer W. C. Durant; in Reno...