Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other able Snooks are John Wilson Snook, warden of the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.; Homer Clyde Snook, electrophysicist, of South Orange, N. J.; John S. Snook, onetime Congressman, of Paulding, Ohio; Frank S. Snook, chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles, of Sacramento, Calif...
...Mojave Desert, Kern County, Calif., a kernite* mine has been discovered which will revolutionize the borax industry, according to Dr. Waldemar T. Schaller of the U. S. Geological Survey. When washed and recrystallized, kermite is ready for market as pure sodium borate. All previous processes of manufacturing borax have been costly, complicated, unsatisfactory. Italy has condensed volcanic steam containing boric acid to get it; Chile has refined and purified ulexite at great expense; the U. S. has mined borax from mineral deposits around Death Valley, a process dangerous and difficult; or has manufactured it from brine, a method in excellent...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
More a pageant than a play, Lazarus Laughed, by famed Eugene O'Neill, received its first performance last week in Pasadena, Calif. Briefly, the play sets forth the adventures of Lazarus who was raised from the dead, taken to Rome, and there, after he has failed to provide Emperor Tiberius with renewed youth, burned at the stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept...
...three months, in the gold rush of '49, George Gordon Gardner toiled his way across the continent. Last week his granddaughter, Miss Sue Hill, flew from Piedmont, Calif., to New Brunswick, N. J., in a mail plane, completing the trip in 34 hours' flying...