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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most remarkable of the roads was the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. President William Benson Storey reports that, after all expenses have been deducted from his entire July operating revenues of $25,561,510, he has remaining a net balance of $8,446,943. That is almost double the net operating income ($4,724,336) of July, 1925. This fact and the high earnings of the previous months of this year explain why, last week, Atchison stock was quoted on the Manhattan Stock Exchange at 155%. (On March 30, 1926, its price...
...Lincoln Nev.-Carson City N.H.-Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne
...dares turn savagely upon its boosters crying to them: "O foolish Philistines!" There is such a city, an ancient city founded when the Indians still hunted over Murray Hill, and Boston Common was indistinguishable from the wilderness around. The breath of the golden century of Spain clings to Santa Fe's narrow streets, walled gardens, soft cathedral chimes. Soft Santa Fe has not, as they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still an old Spanish town. Its population is only 7,500 including some progressive citizens. Recently its Chamber...
Last week Mary Austin, famed artistic Santa Fe resident, protested in the New Republic against the despoilers of her background, said that such cultural colonies belonged to the era of William Jennings Bryan. Many readers agreed that Chautauquas like tweeds are excellent in an appropriate setting, but fail to harmonize with old Spanish lace...
...Thomas de Torquemada, notorious Grand Inquisitor, celebrated the first great auto-da-fe (circa 1450), which began by a solemn procession of the Holy Office and its functionaries, followed by condemned heretics and penitents. Mass was celebrated and all present-including the King of Spain-took an oath of obedience to the Holy Inquisition. Finally the Grand Inquisitor delivered a sermon and read out the sentences of condemnation and acquittal. Contrary to general belief, the condemned were not burned during the auto-da-fe proper, but were handed over to the civil power, by which they were exterminated hours...