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...outdoor activity dominated by a stadium which will hold 58,000 spectators. In its 40 acres are nine football fields, two tracks, and five baseball diamonds besides the already mentioned tennis courts. The remaining "20" acres on the property is used partially by the Military Science stables, armories, drill grounds, and barracks...
Child of Jesus. Also on the march last week, and in drill formation for the first time in their lives, were thousands of Ethiopian troops called up by Emperor Power of Trinity. Short of rifles, famished for cartridges, many drilled with sticks, encouraged by U. S. Negro World War veterans with such martial commands as "Give 'em the works, boys...
Disaster was his from the start. He spent $600,000 drilling wells around Luling, some 60 miles from San Antonio. Not a drop of oil was found. His two geologists, having learnedly proved that the field was dry, packed up and went home. Creditors took his furniture. The banks declined to renew his notes. His neighbors, pointing to a new boundary survey, forced him to move his last drill from a spot he had selected to a spot which, he was afterwards convinced, Divine Providence had picked for him. The day the bank returned his check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient...
Edgar Davis went back to Texas to drill for more oil. Out of his immense wallet money continued to pour-$1,000,000 for charity in Brockton, $1,000,000 for a land experiment station at Luling, $1,000,000 in bonuses for his employes, $10,000 for the best painting of a Texas wildflower. According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat...
...tracks, and five baseball diamonds besides the already mentioned tennis courts. The remaining 20 acres on the property is used partially by the Military Science stables, armories drill grounds, and barracks. Across the street are ten acres more which include two soccer and lacrosse fields...