Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
...requested that Jarvis Street, which runs between the Law School and Jarvis Field, also be closed. Reference was likewise made to the exchange of the city's rights to Holmes Place, in front of the Law School, for the triangular plot between Broadway and Cambridge Street, where a fire station is to be built. This latter matter is now in the law courts and will be concluded as soon as the titles are investigated and changed
Citizen Calvin Coolidge accompanied by Citizeness Coolidge quietly drove from the Inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol to the Union Station a few blocks away. At the station they entered the private car of Edward G. Buckland, Vice President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., an old friend. Frank W. Stearns, who six years ago rode to Washington with the then new President, likewise joined the party. So did Dr. James F. Coupal, who had been White House physician. At 2:35 the Montrealer steamed out of the station to return to Massachusetts its greatest citizens...
...were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...
...smooth, dignified, impeccable Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, head of Standard Oil Co. of California. He has been mentioned as the Rockefeller candidate for Board Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce...