Word: winter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good times in the track events and somewhat below average performances in the field events featured the first day of the annual Winter Carnival Handicap track meet held yesterday in the old baseball cage and on the board track on Soldiers Field. Over 100 men competed...
...informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers a million dollars a year. Sideshows it had, and freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially a Wild West Show, with buffaloes and cattle, cow-men and cowgirls, pistols and scalping knives, and the sure-fire big scene of the Attack on the Stage Coach, with round-eyed, heart-pounding...
During the winter the Millers sold their few remaining cattle to the Indians; decided that they too would change from cattle to farming, but on a scale that would bring back the departed glory of the Miller house. Next spring they put in 5,000 acres of wheat, harvested a record crop of 70,000 bushels, sold at $1.20 a bushel in Chicago. The Cattle Millers were the Farmer Millers then...
Sabre:Gulbransen (C) defeated G. H. Umbsen '29, 5-3. Roth (Columbia) defeated G. H. Umbsen '29, 5-4, and L. C. Winter '31, 5-2. R. W. Ehrich '30 defeated Gulbransen (Columbia...
...spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest looking bunch of stock brokers that could be gathered together in Hollywood, he is given opportunity to do everything but get into a good old fashioned fight...