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...Comstock in 1895. Before the train snorted on, Messrs. Hoover and Mills and Mrs. Mills climbed into the locomotive's cab. Mrs. Hoover and Manhattan's onetime Congresswoman Ruth Pratt stayed behind in the coach. At Virginia City the party visited the famed crystal bar of the Washoe Club. Mr. Mills's grandfather had once signed its register. Many a Silver King in Nevada's great days had stood up to its bar. Mr. Hoover stepped up to sign the register, saw that photographers were setting up their cameras. He said, "Not now. No pictures...
...demolished or abandoned. It showed clearly that profits had been overstated, that payments of dividends to stockholders (of which Founder Bush is the largest) had been continued long after profits and the company's financial condition justified. Not mentioned in the report but long discussed in Manhattan was crystal-gazing Marion Spore's interest in her husband's business affairs, of strange policies emanating from the Bush apartment, mysterious orders that went out to the Bush organization...
...Boldyreff, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. R. Brewster, Andover, Mass.; John Butler, Wakefield, Mass.; G. K. Chalmers, So. Hadley, Mass.; M. L. Chan, Tsingtao, China; Tsung-Yuang Chang, Anhin, China; Isiah Chase, West Roxbury, Mass.; D. L. Cherry, Watsonville, Cal.; F. H. Clark, Hyde Park, Mass.; R. E. Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss.; J. H. Denison, Jr., New York, N.Y.; A. I. Dixon, Reading, Mass.; W. E. Dodd, Jr., Chicago, Ill; M. A. Dolliver, Manset, Me.; J. W. R. Dow, Chicago, Ill.; W. A. Fowlie, Brookline, Mass.; A. R. Fulton, Geneva, N.Y.; W. C. Gutterson, Weymouth, Mass.; Miles Hanson, Jr., Weston, Mass...
...done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...race will be held over the new Tuckerman Ravine ski trail from the Mountaineering Club's spur cabin to the Crystal Cascade, just above Pinkham Notch. Competitors will be sent off down the trial at intervals of two minutes to avoid overlapping, but should any skier be overtaken by the man following him he is automatically disqualified. This course has been covered this winter in slightly under seven minutes...