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...Vancouver was founded in 1828 as a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Co. †The Battle of Bennington was Aug. 16, 1777. *This law has not been rigidly enforced for several years. Its effect has been to increase the cost of a 15-cent package of cigarets to 25 cents...
Last year (TIME, Aug. 18), the Shah nearly lost his crown for "debauching" along the Riviera-an experience which had apparently taught him little, for it was stated in Nice that His Majesty was deaf to the call of duty in the land of Iran...
...funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side, and an inscription...
Constantinople Woman's College was founded in 1890 by Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, who resigned last year (TIME, Aug. 11) after 53 years' service, and was succeeded by Mrs. Kathryn Newell Adams, born in Prague, Bohemia, of missionary parents...
Many of the Chicago lawyers who attended, last summer, the meeting of the American Bar Association in London (TIME, Aug. 4, et. seq.) were impressed with the way in which trials take place in England-in the court room and not in the newspapers. This experience, together with the publicity which attended the trial of Leopold and Loeb, is said to have induced the present stand of the members of the Chicago...