Word: humboldt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purring over the Southern Pacific's tracks toward parched Humboldt River Canyon, some 250 miles east of Reno, one night last week rolled the super-streamliner City of San Francisco. With her 17 sleek, buff cars, well-stocked bars, roomy lounges, the $2,000,000 train (owned jointly by Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western) was the nearest thing to a night club on wheels in U. S. transport. It was 10:30 p. m. Some of the 149 passengers were abed in pastel-shaded roomettes, but the club car was still comfortably full...
...Diesel-powered locomotive, Engineer Edward Hecox, who had driven the flyer ever since she started her regular 39 ¼-hour Chicago-San Francisco run in 1938, watched for the steeply palisaded curve near Humboldt River bridge. Nearing the curve, he throttled down...
With a German-born population of 11,366 and twice as many German-speaking homes, Chicago has long been one of the world's first German cities. The pride of Chicago's Germans is nourished not only by the statues of Goethe, Schiller and von Humboldt that gleam in the city parks but by their living countrymen prominent in the city's affairs. Chicago last week honored one of these, blue-eyed, baldish Carl Bismarck Roden, for 50 years an employe of the great Chicago Public Library and for 18 years its Chief Librarian...
...time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented his advertisement. Dec. 8, 1927, The Oregon Statesman, then published by R. J. Hendricks, now editor-emeritus, put peppermint into its ink to add zest to its "slogan page" which, that issue, dealt with the growth of the peppermint oil industry...
Born: at Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13. 1874. Start in life: cowboy. Career: in 1875 his parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker...