Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circus travel "as far inland as Beaumont, Tex." This city is a port, according to Rand McNally, the Southern Pacific Railroad, my own observations, the United States Shipping Board and other authorities. Of course if Mr. Tully insists that it is inland perhaps you can prevail upon these authorities to change their statements...
...brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
...Southern Pacific train last week chugged swiftly over the rails in the State of Nayarit, Mexico, belching steam and smoke into the night air and spewing fine cinders over the countryside. Sleeping soundly in comfortable Pullmans were eleven U. S. citizens on their way back...
...with ten driving wheels as high as a man's head. Smaller locomotives pulled and pushed it across the continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business a head of steam proportionate to the pressures carried by his latest products...
...Southern Pacific...