Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Union Telegraph (communications, the operating company): $7,328,892 against...
Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter Sherman Gifford of A. T. & T. announced the signing of important nonexclusive contracts with Western Union. Telegrams may now be sent over long-distance telephone wires. Also at the service of Western Union for transmission of facsimile messages, is A. T. & T.'s telephoto system. To many, these contracts presaged the gradual scrapping of the Western Union plant and ever-increasing reliance on the service...
...Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
...Black buck Negroes and black buxom Negresses prostrated themselves, as was fitting, before His Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians and of Belgian Congo Blackamoors-and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The white Sovereigns, complacent, were on tour through their Afric domains, which are larger in area than all Western Europe and contain almost as many Blackamoors as does...
Marshall Field & Co. (wholesale) has announced plans for a Merchandise Mart, with space for other merchants, to be erected along the Chicago River and partly in the air rights of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The height will only be some 20 stories, but the mart will contain 4,000,000 sq. ft. (about 92 acres) of floor space. The architects are Graham, Anderson Probst & White. The name of Builder-Architect Ernest Robert Graham assures distinction-distinction dating back to the magnificent Chicago World's Fair, through the unprecedented Flatiron Building in Manhattan, to railroad stations, museums and skyscrapers...