Word: streetcars
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...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...Passed District of Columbia bills: 1) reducing school children's streetcar fares to 2?; 2) regulating operation and insurance of motor vehicles; 3) regulating sale, use, possession of dangerous weapons...
...from the Commissioner so to do." This sentence might apply to the general public or only to special purchasers (i. e. drugstores) who obtained liquor from illegal sources. The U. S. Supreme Court last week handed down a decision in the case of one James E. Farrar, Boston elevated streetcar operator arrested for liquor-buying: he was not guilty.* Explained Associate Justice George Sutherland...
...transport between neighboring major cities will approach "streetcar frequency...