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...accompaniment of a roaring Tammany parade outside. After attending fashionable Miss Spence's and Miss Chapin's Schools in Manhattan, she married aged 19. Four years later she found herself widowed, with two children, and on her way to homestead in New Mexico's Burro Mountains. When Copperman Greenway married her she was a full-fledged ranch operator. At Chicago, Mrs. Greenway. who shuns rouge & lipstick, seconded" the Roosevelt nomination, said that mention of her for the Vice-Presidency was "a purely honorary candidacy...
There was dancing in the streets in Barcelona last week, such a fiesta as not even the oldest Catalan could remember. By oxcart and on burro the peasants came in their red stockinet caps and baggy breeches. Leather-faced fishermen came up from Tarragona. All night long shouting crowds surged up & down under the huge plane trees of the ramblas to rigadoon round the statue of Christopher Columbus and back up the hill again. From a thousand staffs fluttered the five-barred red-&-yellow Catalonian flag. Trucks of Shell Oil Co. were hailed with delight...
...iron-hot Funeral Range and Panamint Mountain until it seems that the whole world lies waiting for one final and consuming igneous blast. . . . Then, on the waltzing surface of distant alkali, a lake of sweet cool waters appears. But the wise desert rat astride his fuzzy burro passes his tongue between cracked lips, smiles ironically and sets the portent down as Death Valley's crowning treachery, the mirage. And yet, last week, there was a lake in California's subsea level inferno. One Perry Brite, Kerr County supervisor, stood on Dante's Lookout and saw that...
...schooner, and Prime Minister Judd en trusted to him protests against the action of Captain Paulet, to be presented to the American and English governments. Arriving at Acapulco, the English despatch agent and the American sought sleeping accommodations, but later on the American arose, and hiring every mule and burro available, left Acapulco, leaving no means of transportation for the English Agent. Crossing Mexico, a steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance of the Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral Thomas...
Recent Policy. Phelps Dodge owns the Copper Queen mines near Bisbee and other mines at Morenci, both in Arizona; a slightly developed property at Burro Mountain at Tyrone, N. Mex.; the Montezuma Copper Co. of Sonora; smelters at Douglas, Ariz. About a year ago Phelps Dodge joined with other copper companies including Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. (another Bisbee producer) to buy a substantial interest in Nichols Copper Co., which owns a copper refinery on Long Island. Nichols Co. is to build a refinery at El Paso especially to handle their product...