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...ends of the U. S. Atlantic seaboard are rising, while the middle falls. Portland, Me. and Charleston. S. C. gain 7 to 15 in. elevation in a century. Boston. New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia and Baltimore subside 3.5 to 11.5 in. a century. Key West seems stationary. The rises & falls seem to be rhythmic. Boston, now sinking, was on the up between 1847 and 1876, with most of the elevation gained between 1857 & 1858. The sudden gain, surmises Dr. William Fitch Cheney Jr. (Connecticut Agricultural College), was related to the Naples earthquake of 1857. Charleston had an earthquake...
...Combahee River, S. C. duck preserves of Broker Edward F, Hutton, Manhattan socialite, soared many a skyrocket, roman candle & firecracker, set off by angry hunters. They charged he had caused or permitted ducks to be scared from other preserves so that his own might be well-filled. Warned the Charleston Record in an editorial titled "Hutton, the Czar of Combahee": "There is a limit to the amount of arrogance human beings will stand from any member of their race. Mr. Hutton may some day learn that because he has bought a piece of property in South Carolina...
...Hollywood respectively; Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrdt of influenza, in Boston; Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 68, onetime President of Rockefeller Foundation and University of Minnesota, after an appendectomy, in Greenwich, Conn.; Norman B. Woolworth, cousin of the late tycoon Winfield (5 & 10¢) Woolworth. aboard his chartered yacht Cyprus, near Charleston...
...Charleston, W. Va., Governor William Gustavus Conley opened the door of the Executive Mansion's furnace, was greeted by a deafening explosion, burned about the face and arms by a jet of flame, struck down by the flying 100-lb. door...
...architecture of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va., surpasses any in the country; likewise the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, is comparable to any. The Universities of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia have buildings and grounds which could scarcely be finer in cultural and historic atmosphere. The College of Charleston (S. C.) is without a peer among city colleges. My own alma mater, the University of the South (the Oxford of America) at Sewanee, Tenn., with its 10,000-acre campus, the largest in the U. S.. yet one of the smallest colleges (30 men), with its Magdalen College Tower...