Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hastily a small shaft was driven into the ground nearby; mining engineers rushed from San Francisco. The discovery of a "lost bonanza" was confirmed. Once more Virginia City was a boom town. Piute squaws came down out of the hills. Divorcees in fur coats motored over from Reno. But no lucky prospector stood to profit. The mineral rights of the whole area have long belonged to great mining companies...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...
Divorced. Lammot du Pont, 52 board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; by Caroline Hynson Stollenwerck du Pont; in Reno. Grounds: "extreme cruelty...
Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
Married. Baldwin M. Baldwin, grandson of the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin (famed San Francisco mining, racing & theatre character); and Margaret Wilson of Indianapolis; in Reno...