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Like beads in a great rosary 700 miles long, from San Diego in the south to Sonoma in the north stand 21 missions which in the 18th Century Fray Junipero Serra and his followers built to God's glory in California. Two are in ruins, one has become a museum, the others are partially restored and used for religious services. The Jesuits had evangelized Lower California from the time they appeared in the New World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers...
...burning zeal, Fray Junipero moved his people to penitential awe with such mortifications as applying a torch to his bare chest and beating it with stones. With a party of 15 he visited the missions of Lower California, then struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians in the arts...
Dale H. Maple, San Diego, California--San Diego High School...
Homer D. Peabody, Jr., San Diego, California--San Diego High School...
...nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample to the Institut de Radium in Paris (once presided over by the late Marie Curie). Present...