Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was the latest scene in an epic of journalism in New Mexico. In 1920 Magee, a lawyer from Tulsa went to Albuquerque for his wife's health, and decided to buy a newspaper. So he picked the Morning Journal which was partly owned by Albert Bacon Fall, then Senator from New Mexico. Mr. Fall looked up Magee's record in Tulsa and found that he was "regular" and financially reliable. So Magee bought, Fall telling him that he was glad to get the money since he was about broke. Soon Magee began to expose corruption...
Sued for Divorce. Jim Thorpe, famed Sac and Fox Indian athlete, by Iva M. Thorpe, Cherokee; in Tulsa, Okla. She charged desertion...
...Repudiates Butler's Wet Views." All this occurred in the days following Dr. Butler's original remarks. But May dragged into June and The Monitor still continued its attacks on Dr. Butler. "Texas Repudiates Dr. Butlers View," "Governor and College Head Assail Dr. Butler's Position," "Tulsa Citizens Repudiate Dr. Butler's Wet Stan'd." The editor of The Monitor may well have written "Butler, Butler," all over his desk pad for 1924-lest he forget, lest he forget...
...favorites before the race were: for the East, Bracadale and Mad Play, owned by Harry F. Sinclair of Manhattan; for the West, Black Gold, owned by Mrs. R. M. Hoots, an Indian woman of Tulsa, and Chilhowee. The entries of Harry Payne Whitney were also looked on with favor by Easterners. They were Transmute and Klondyke. Neither of these did well...
Died. Mrs. Pearl Gardner, 38, "biggest woman in the world"; at Tulsa. She weighed 700 pounds, measured 38J/2 inches from shoulder to shoulder. A special coffin, two feet longer than it was wide, was constructed...