Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Junior-Welterweight: Jimmy McLarnin, Vancouver, Wash...
...centre of Madison Square Garden, there was a prizefight and a ceremony. The ceremony was simple: Jack Dempsey climbed through the ropes; the announcer, red-faced Joe Humphreys, made a gesture; the lights went down; a bugler played taps. Presently the lights went on and Jimmy McLarnin, of Vancouver, Wash., beat Joe Glick, Brooklyn tailor...
...they tell us, but we hadn't expected such confirmation. Some of us will take the news with equanimity, content to act in what appears to be a moving picture, but there is always the small person who, told that Niagara Falls was eating its way backward, eventually to wash away a nearby village, wept, fearful for the safety of a cherished aunt in that village...
...exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin (35,000 h. p.); Snoqualmie Falls, Wash. (20,000 h. p.). Some famed undeveloped U. S. waterfalls...
Boeing Airplane Co. Seattle, Wash / Boeing / Passenger & cargo / . . . . . . . .$15,000-$22,500 / Mail routes...