Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed to the guards. Editor Horace Greeley and Publisher William Cullen Bryant displayed intense interest when the sisters went to New York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded as "a new revelation...
...Often the mounds were piled up in the images of animals. In Wisconsin are buffalo, moose, elk, deer, fox, wolf, panther, lynx and eagle tumuli, evidently of totemic significance, the actual graves being dug hard by. These images are enormous: eagles with 1,000 ft. wingspread; panthers with 350-ft. tails. The Great Serpent Mound (Adams County, Ohio) is 1,348 ft. long, following the curves of the body and the triple-coiled tail. The opened jaws are 75 ft. across, yawning at a smaller mound -which resembles a frog...
Last week was announced the appointment of the Buffalo lawyer-his firm is today Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass-to be supreme judge in the financial affairs of Europe. He is henceforth President of the Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation, a court which will be judge and divider between the Reparations Committee and the German Government. How and when and what reparations Germany must pay under the Dawes Plan are supernational questions to be determined in de- object to Mr. Gilbert's dictation. Germany may on some occasions object to Mr. Parker's dictation. What then? There...
Among the leading 12 U. S. cities, Boston alone showed a slight increase. No change was apparent in Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis during the past year. But in Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, the trend toward lower rents was unmistakable...
...Angeles has the distinction of having seen the greatest advances in rents since 1914; present rates there are now 131% to 140% above those eleven years ago. Indeed in 1924 Los Angeles landlords obtained rents averaging 161% to 170% higher than in 1914. Apart from Los Angeles, rents in Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are still 100% above 1914 rates...