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CALIFORNIA: The first Chinaman ever to be impaneled on a jury in San Francisco was Frank H. Tape, 30, born and bred in America...
...have been made in the telephone art. The most notable of these include the extension of transcontinental service to Havana, Cuba, through a submarine cable from Key West; the use of loud-speaking apparatus in connection with the transcontinental line in simultaneous ceremonies at Arlington, Va., New York and San Francisco, on Armistice Day, 1921; and the linking up of wire and wireless transmission in speech from ship to shore and across the Atlantic. All of these developments are due wholly or in part to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company which carry on probably...
...States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
...edge of a field back of his farmhouse in the Vermont hills. His large, nobly-formed head, with its loosely falling iron gray hair, bends slightly forward. He talks deliberately, softly, his somewhat piercing and remarkably blue eyes lighting now and then with mischievous humor. Frost was born in San Francisco. His father, a transplanted New Englander, was a newspaper man. His mother was Scotch. At the age of ten, however, Robert Frost was living in Massachusetts, and it is with the New England states that he is firmly associated. He left Dartmouth after a short try as an undergraduate...
...scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than it organized a 245-mile endurance motorcycle race, open to all. The largest publishing concern in the world broke all distribution records during 1922. The largest publishing concern is the Government Printing...