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...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...conspicuous exploiters of borderline medicine in this benighted land. For example, in 1925 the chairman of the section on radiology was Mr. George S. Foden, a practitioner of electronic medicine, who read a paper on 'The Eye as an Index Factor to Personality'; Osteopath Francis A. Cave, an honorary vice-president of the Medical Liberty League, also devoted himself to electronic practice; William Howard Hay, chairman of the section on advanced medicine, had a diabetic cure and one for hay-fever; A. C. Geyser is a promoter of the 'tricho system'; George E. Harter...
...Lord Chancellor, Rt. Hon. George, Viscount Cave, broached the Government's program in carefully generalized terms. He called for three major "reforms...
Whose home is coral cave and azure grot...
...wilderness, the whole-hearted sympathy of the people would have turned towards the Mississippi valley; but now the city of New Orleans, its fate still hanging in the balance, causes less excitement than the struggle, several years ago, to save the life of one man trapped in a Kentucky cave...