Word: tabor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen, many of whom have yet to report after the formalities of Hygiene lectures and physical examinations, are pointing for their first game with Tabor Academy on Saturday, October 5. At that time they start their class on its athletic career...
Sold for $700 at auction in Denver were the trinkets of the late Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor (TIME, March 18), remnants of a fortune estimated...
...time "Silver Dollar" Tabor counted his fortune at $100,000,000, was reputed the largest landowner in the world. Ten years later came demonetization of silver and panic. Tabor, in the belief that his silver mines would produce unending wealth, had squandered or gambled away some $12,000,000 in 14 years. Now he was ruined. Followed five years of humiliating poverty-"Baby Doe" stripped of her gorgeous gowns and jewels, "Silver Dollar" working occasionally with pick & shovel. In 1898 he was appointed Denver's postmaster, held the job a year. died. But only last week came...
...Vermont stonecutter, Tabor went West in 1855, opened a general store, made $1,300,000 out of a $64 grubstake to two German prospectors who struck silver. He bought the Matchless silver mine in Leadville, Colo, for $117,000, made $10,000,000 out of it. Coarse and lusty, he spent his money with equal pleasure on a million-dollar opera house in Denver, a $1,000 silk & lace nightshirt with gold buttons. Dazzled by his wealth was the belle of the mining camps. "Baby Doe," daughter of an Oshkosh, Wis. tailor. When the great Tabor began eyeing her blonde...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor, 73, relict of Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor, Colorado miner; by freezing to death; in Leadville, Colo...