Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Anderson had become engaged to one Frederick Boehme, Stockton (Calif.) schoolteacher, a member of the U. S. student group attending the summer lectures. He stayed by the side of his fiancee until she died next day. Thus was a romance cut short and thus died the third U. S. citizen to be killed by Mexican bandits within the past two years. Fifteen others were killed or wounded in the attack, none of them U. S. citizens...
...Murray of Princeton, F. W. Marvel of Brown, E. K. Hall of the Football Rules Committee and Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75. Other honorary pall bearers will be Gilman Collamore '93, W. A. Harvey, Dr. R. L. Lee '02, Judge F. J. Macleod, Henry Pennypacker '88, Philip Stockton '96 and H. H. White...
Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer: "Last week, after undressing in an ambulance, I swam to and fro in the Trinity River, seven miles from Dallas, Tex., peering and feeling unsuccessfully underwater for two corpses, the bodies of 18-year-old Dallas boys, Clifford Stockton and Lee Harris, whose boat had capsized. This information reached the public through the press agent of the vaudeville troupe with which I am barnstorming...
...Golden Gate Park Zoo, San Francisco, one Percy Hayes, 17, visitor from Stockton, Calif., ignored the warning signs on the cinnamon bear cage and poked his face up to the bars better to watch the beasts eat the lump sugar that he was tossing them. One bear nabbed the boy and inquisitively pawed his face. Two dirty claws pierced his eyes...
...Three gifts arrived at the White House in one day. One of them was a piece of paper representing 100,000 lb. of smiles. It came from the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at Stockton, Calif., and was a "way bill" representing a carload of smiles. It had been indorsed en route by many railworkers. The second gift consisted of two arrowheads from Fort Minis, Ala., presented by Representative Hill of that state, one to the President, one to Mrs. Coolidge. The third was a bushel of potatoes, "large Idaho russet," sent by the Idaho Chamber of Commerce and presented...