Word: comstocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career started in Ely, Nevada, where around 1906 he was a practical mining man. In 1920 with Thomas F. Cole he raised enough money to finance the Comstock merger. He be came head of the combined companies, retained the position after the Cecil Rhodes South African group bought control...
Turbulent, exciting has been the history of speculation in mining. Few men now alive can recall the discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, but many remember the phases of speculation which received their impetus then and burned long like fever throughout the country. In San Francisco this speculation was especially great. Around 1875 the San Francisco Mining Exchange was at its height. Police guarded its doors while the public clamored to buy Bell Isle, whirled by the "Tuscarora Ring" from obscurity to $5.25, then dropped to $1.25, or to buy Bodie, which caused the eastern public the greatest losses...
Died. Anna Botsford Comstock, 75, professor-emeritus of nature study at Cornell University, in 1923 voted by the National League of Women Voters as one of twelve greatest women in the U. S., wife of Cornell's famed Entomologist John Henry Comstock; at her home in Ithaca...
...clock Monday night in the Boston Public Library the Harvard University Orchestra, Pierian Sodality of 1808, will appear in a free concert open to the public. The orchestra will be conducted by G. W. Woodworth '24, and assisted by Miss Dorothy Comstock and M. D. Holmes 2G, assistant conductor of the orchestra. These artists will play the Bach concerto for two violins...
Soloists Miss Comstock and Mr. Holmes Saudades do Brazil Milhand Stavonic Dances, Opus 46, Book 1 Nos 2 and 3 Dyorak