Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Leland L. Duncan, owner of Rin-Tin-Tin, famed canine cinemactor; by Mrs. Charlotte Anderson Duncan; in Los Angeles. She charged that he loved the dog alone...
Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin). The hero is building an irrigation dam in Colorado. The villain wants to blow it up. But Rinty, the wonder dog, foxes the dastardly fellow, not only saves the dam by a display of amazing engineering but also ducks all the bullets flying in his direction. In the end Rinty and his bitch (Princess) show in a happy closeup...
...Fulton, Mo., last fortnight, a newsgatherer gazed upon a board containing 100 circlets of human hair in every conceivable color. The circlets were tied with ribbons. Under each was a woman's name, an address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly...
...electrical contact apparatus mounted on a wheel. As the wheel revolves, the apparatus makes and breaks electrical contact 2,500 times per revolution. To each contact point runs a wire which picks up a bit of the current. These wires carry the current to 2,500 tiny squares of tin foil mounted behind the television screen in neon gas. As the current reaches each bit of tin foil it leaps through the neon, which is instantly illuminated. The flashes thus made, strong or weak, according to the amount of current received, build up the picture on the screen. They arrive...
...door of the Sandy Field, N. Y., (pop. 120), schoolhouse one day last week. How come, she demanded of Schoolteacher Mabel Dougherty, 120 pounds, that Mrs. Abe Conklin, wife of the Sandy Field truant officer, had dared to come nosing around her farm with Abe Conklin's tin badge, impersonating an officer in the house of Deputy Sheriff and Park Policeman Youmans, (who has two badges, one of them gold) and presuming to ask why his son, Howard Youmans, had been absent from school so often lately. Mrs. Youmans paused for breath. Well, said Teacher Dougherty, Howard had been...