Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Austin could not find a Nevada mining man to put up the $500 cash for a third interest and he himself did not want to mortgage the house he owned in Reno. Finally he borrowed $1,000 without security from a generous friend, made the down payment and bought equipment. Crudely he dug out three sacks of ore, trekked them out by packhorse and sent them to the San Francisco Mint. They were worth $84.45. His ore assayed at the bonanza rate of $1,495 gold and 20 oz. of silver per ton. If the Jumbo vein held...
Divorced. Mrs. Queena Marion Tillotson Pelletier (Queena Mario), 40, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Wilfred Pelletier. 40, since 1916 the Metropolitan's assistant conductor; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...Manhattan bank, concentrated on bringing little Western banks into the fold of San Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward, bought up Reno, Nevada's First National Bank, made it the centre of a cluster of seven Nevada branches...
Born in Hamburg, Iowa, at some undisclosed date before 1900, Lilie Bouton traveled to Reno and then to San Francisco, attended the Van Ness Seminary on Nob Hill, soon broke away from her parents' domination and got a part in a San Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when...
Divorced. Robert G. Nathan. 42, poet and novelist (One More Spring, Road of Ages); by Nancy Wilson Nathan, his second wife; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...