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...road he spied a hand-shaped stone implement and fragments of human bones. He notified Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota who hustled to the scene with six students, probed the gravel pit. Seven weapons were found in all, some of them true Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years. He was 25 to 40 years old when he perished, had a short face and long skull like the Cro-Magnon man of Europe...
Colorado, In 1926 a party of diggers from Denver went south to excavate for fossils near Folsom, N. Mex. Among the bones of extinct bison they turned up two curious flint implements which later attained fame as the first "Folsom points." Obviously not arrowheads but possibly spearheads or darts, they were broad, flat blades with slightly rounded points, chiefly distinguished from other primitive weapons by deep troughs on each face. In subsequent years typical Folsom points were found all over the Midwest, as far east as Pennsylvania, as far north as New Hampshire, as far south as Georgia. The University...
Such was the Folsom situation when Major Roy Gregg Coffin of Colorado Agricultural College and his brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating...
...skeletons of the hunters did not come to light. First human remains found with Folsom points were reported from...
...Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen up on commercial credit to help along the NRA drive. ¶ President Roosevelt got a business letter last week from the son of President Cleveland. As counsel for the Individual Brand Petroleum Association, Richard Folsom ("Dick") Cleveland, famed for the great revolt he led against the Princeton Club system two decades ago wrote to protest NRA's price-fixing for oil which would tend to put out of business his clients, small independent gasoline station owners in 26 states...